Sample Draft Resolution

Committee: UN Commission on Science and Technology

Topic: International News Flow Imbalance

Signatories: Algeria, United States, Colombia, United Kingdom, South Africa, Portugal, Republic of Korea, and Spain

The Economic and Social Council,

Noting its Resolution, A/36/89 of 16 December 1981, “The Declaration on Fundamental Principles Concerning the
Contribution of the Mass Media to Strengthening Peace and International Understanding,”

Noting further Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “Everyone has the right to...receive and
impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers,”

Recognizing that the problem of news flow imbalance is that two-way information among countries of a region is
either non-existent or insufficient and information exchanged between regions of the world is inadequate,

Realizing the need for all sovereign nations to maintain their integrity and still play an active role in the international
system,

1. Recommends that a three-level information interchange system be established on the National, Regional, and
International levels to ameliorate the current problems of news flow imbalance, operating as follows:
a) Each region’s member nations will report their national information and receive the information of other nations
in their region from the regional level of this interchange system;
b) Nations will decide the character of the news flow media best suited to the needs of their sovereign territory, be
this printed, audio, or audio-visual;
c) Regional News Gathering Agencies will serve to gather information from the nations in their region, and these
boards will have no editorial discretion and will serve to forward all information to the International Board;
d) Each regional agency will be composed of representatives from every member nation of the region;
e) The primary function of the International Board will be to translate information accumulated from the regional
news-gathering agencies;
f) The secondary purpose will be to transmit all information gathered back to the member nations via the regional
news-gathering agencies;
g) In order to expedite the transfer of information from the international to regional level the International Board
will utilize a UN frequency on an EEC (European Economic Community) satellite;

2. Urges the establishment of the University of International Communications, with the main branch in Geneva,
Switzerland, and additional branches located in each of the aforementioned regions, to pursue the following aims:
a) The University and branches will be established with the express purpose of bringing together world views and
facilitating the transfer of technology;
b) All member nations of the United Nations will be equally represented at the University;
c) Incentives will be offered to students of journalism and communications at the University to return to their
countries to teach upon completion of instruction;
d) The instructors of the regional education centres will be comprised of a multi-partisan coalition of educators from
throughout the world;

3. Calls for the continued use of funds from the International Program for the Development of Communications,
Special Account, UNESCO, the UNDP, and other sources of funding including national governments and private
donors;

4. Further recommends that the distribution of funds be decided by the IPDC.

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Heading:
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Economic and Social Council committees and Regional Bodies, and five members in the Security Council and
Historical Security Council. Signatories should be listed at the top of the first page of the draft resolution.

Body:
The body of a resolution is written in the format of a long sentence, with the following rules:

• The committees of the General Assembly and Economic and Social Council should begin their resolutions
with “The General Assembly” and “The Economic and Social Council,” respectively. All other committees should use
their own names in the introductory line. The rest of the resolution is comprised of two sets of clauses.
• The first set consists of perambulatory clauses, which describe the problem being addressed, recall past
actions taken, explain the purpose of the resolution, and offer support for the operative clauses that follow. Each
clause in the preamble begins with an italicized (or underlined, if handwritten) word or phrase and ends with a
comma.
• The second set consists of operative clauses, which are numbered and state the action(s) to be taken by the
body.
These clauses all begin with present tense active verbs, which are generally stronger words than those used to begin
perambulatory clauses. These verbs are underlined. All operative clauses, except the last, which ends with a period,
are followed by semi-colons.
Perambulatory Phrases Affirming Operative
Clauses
Accepts Has resolved
Alarmed by Affirms Notes

Guided by
Approving Having adopted Approves Proclaims
Aware of Having considered Authorizes Reaffirms
Bearing in mind Having considered Calls for Recommend
further s
Believing Having devoted Calls upon Regrets
attention
Cognizant of Having examined Condemns Reminds
(SC only)
Confident Having heard Confirms Requests
Contemplating Having received Congratulate Resolves
s
Convinced Having studied Considers Solemnly
affirms
Declaring Keeping in mind Declares Strongly
accordingly condemns
Deeply concerned Noting further Demands (SC Supports
only)
Deeply conscious Noting with approval Deplores Takes note
of
Deeply convinced Noting with deep Designates Trusts
concern

Deeply disturbed Noting with regret Draws Urges

attention
Deeply regretting Noting with satisfaction Emphasizes Welcomes
Desiring Observing Encourages

Has resolved
Emphasizing Reaffirming Endorses Notes
Expecting Realizing Expresses its Proclaims
appreciation
Expressing its Recalling Expresses its Reaffirms
appreciation hope
Expressing its Recognizing Recommend
satisfaction s