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Re: Model UN's/rants/ideas--was Re: IGNORANT views fuel oppression?
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Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:52:41 GMT
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I gotta run, only have time for one throwaway comment.

In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:

++Lar (former Model UN participant, who played the Pakistani ambassador :-) )

How did that model UN work with you as Pakistan's ambassador?

Pretty well I think. We were told to study the real positions and try to
play true to form and policy rather than how we personally felt.

One example:

There was a resolution that came up that condemned the US for supporting
Israel and praised Iran for taking hostages... (this was during the hostage
crisis of 1980) I spoke in support and voted in favor, along with all the
other muslim countries.



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  Model UN's/rants/ideas--was Re: IGNORANT views fuel oppression?
 
(...) How did that model UN work with you as Pakistan's ambassador? The resolution was not necessarily set up to be humourous, nor was it to be perfectly serious--it was to raise a concern of mine in which, if the majority concurs, we could quash a (...) (22 years ago, 11-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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