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www.balmun.de • Sunday/Monday, June 1st and 2nd, 2008• Issue 3/2008

Save the Planet - Plant A Tree Environmental Committee takes part at United Nations campaign

The delegates from the

Environmental Committee

(EC) were probably hoping for

some relaxing spare time

when they were told to move

to the schoolyard on Friday

morning. But they were

wrong! Biology teacher Mrs.

Rieck was waiting for them

with spades and watering cans

and a big mission: Saving the

planet by planting a tree, well,

or at least an herb garden.

Mrs. Rieck told us that this

idea was based on an UN pro-

ject. Besides, she emphasized

that she wanted young people

to learn something about

sustainability. “I‟m shocked,

how clueless some of them are

as sustainability is concerned.

By the way, this is a great

chance for them to get to

know each other in the context

of practical work.”

The Baltic Herald Press

Team had a lot of fun wat-

ching the delegates from the

EC, that had dutifully obeyed

to the dress code, while doing

their garden work. Though

she was wearing an amazing

dress, Chair Eugenia Andrejuk

admitted ironically: “I love

this job. I‟d rather be a garde-

ner than a Chair.” She had

even replaced her business

shoes with a bright, colourful

pair of sneakers.

The honourable delegates

from Denmark and Russia,

Robert Reifeld and Ludwig

Boddin, told us frankly: “We

hate garden work.” Probably

that was why they were spen-

ding a remarkable amount of

time on adjusting their tie.

After arranging the herb

garden situated next to the

students kitchen our hard-

working delegates finally re-

ceived a recompense. The tea-

chers had prepared self-made

bread and curd cheese with

herbs which gave an example

of a sustainable breakfast.

When all the dirty work

was done, Deputy Secretary-

General Wencke Lubojanski

and Secretary-General Torge

Schwandt, posed in the bed.

Guys, we have seen through

your façade!

By

KAROLIN DARMÜNTZEL

and KRISTIN GRAMSE

The Secretaries General Torge Schwandt and Wencke Lubojanski helped the Environmen-

tal Committee with teacher Mrs Rieck at the UN campaign "Plant A Tree".

Photos: Karoline Darmüntzel

And she said YES! Surprise ! In an Innercircle

meeting yesterday, Deputy

Headmaster and BALMUN

Supervisor Mrs. Regine Koch

said, that there will be a next

BALMUN conference in 2009.

Till that point of time it

was not really sure, if there

will be a next BALMUN. Mrs.

Koch was glad to announce

some members of the next

BALMUN team.

The conference will start

on June 11th, 2009.

Will you be there?

By MATTHIAS BANNERT

Mrs. Regine Koch

yesterday.

BALMUN Issue 3 / 2008 • Page 2

EDITOR„S NOTE Wow. It„s do-

ne. I can„t be-

lieve BALMUN

is over. It has

been full-time

stress over

(more than)

four days. But I„m also sad that

this is over now. What should I

do with my freetime now? :-)

Some of the Inner circle mem-

bers cried. Because of sadness

and because of losing lots of

weight that they carried on their

shoulders. I feel nearly the sa-

me. BALMUN and the work on

The Baltic Herald was one of

my most important life expe-

riences. I will miss the time. But

I„m looking forward to the next

BALMUN conference. Perhaps

with me? Who know. Thank

you guys !

Lovely greetings Matt

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Correction Referring to the article of

yesterday„s issue about the

Political Comittee the we want

to correct the claim the delega-

te of Denmark change the

committee to ECOSOC becau-

se of her friend. We got this

information from the Chair of

the PC Lukas Krönert. The

Delegate of Denmark corrects

this matter: „I wanted to leave

the Political Committee, becau-

se I was asked by the chairs of

the ECOSOC to represent a

developing country.“

This is BALMUN„s

Youngest Delegate

“Preferably, I would like

to be a delegate in the UN in

the future”, says Alexander

Cohen, delegate for Denmark.

What‟s so special about him?

Because the young boy is only

twelve years old right now.

Originally, he comes from

Ottawa (Canada) and lives

with his father in Berlin at the

moment. “My dad is a profes-

sor for journalism and foreign

affairs, actually I‟m only for

one year here but I‟d love to

stay longer.”

“MUN is a great way to

meet new people, discuss

opinions and to open your

mind for new aspects. This

year I‟ve already attended

four MUNs.” Alexander likes

to read, sports magazines and

even gossip, and loves to tra-

vel. He calls it “collecting

countries”. In Germany he has

already visited cities like Co-

logne, Nuremberg, Hamburg

and Dresden

and he also

likes the Han-

seatic city of

Rostock.

Being the

youngest dele-

gate is no prob-

lem, “it‟s cool

and I think

MUN is not

only for older

people.” The

Danish delega-

te is also satis-

fied with BAL-

MUN. “Though

it‟s their first

time they did a

great job and I

have a pretty

pleasant im-

pression.”

The apple doesn't fall far

from the tree – young Alexan-

der would like to become

either a writer or politician,

just like his father.

“I don‟t want to sit in an

tedious office alone but to

meet new people and travel a

lot.” Ladies and Gentlemen,

this is the new generation of

MUN managers: When he

comes back to Canada he

plans to organize his own

MUN there. Our future is

saved.

By CHRISTINE RUPPERT

and STELLA MARIA FREI

Alexander Cohen (12 years)

Photo: Christine Ruppert

A Spy in the Editorial Rooms

Robert Straßburg, Chief of

Administration, tried to spy

out the editorial rooms of

"The Baltic Herald" on Friday

evening. When nearly all

members of the Press Team

had finished their work and

left the room, he entered and

went straight to a computer

to have a look onto an article

written by one of the editors.

Straßburg criticised the con-

tent and was up to censor the

independent newspaper of

BALMUN 2008.

All members of Press

claim herewith the freedom of

press!

By

KAROLINE DARMÜNTZEL

Mr. Robert Straßburg

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Issue 3 / 2008 • Page 4 COMMITTEES

Herald Talks to some DC Delegates

On Saturday morning the

press team was just visiting

the Disarmament Committee

and followed some debates.

At BALMUN 2008 the whole

discussions are under the

main topic “Preventing the

acquisition of radioactive ma-

terial sources”.

After a hot and successful

debate we talked to the chair

and a few delegates.

Erik Muttersbach (18),

chair: “I‟ve been working in

the DC already last year and

I‟ve made fantastic experien-

ces. It‟s a great pleasure and

honour to be the chair this

year, also the main topic in-

nervating.” So far, the discus-

sions have

been fruit-

ful though

“it‟s so hot

o u t s i d e ” ,

he smiles.

Philip Jorsboe (16): The

delegate of the USA is proud

to be a member of the Disar-

mament Committee. “The

USA is the mightiest country

in the world”, he says. “We

support disarmament but all

countries should work to-

gether, we don‟t want to do it

alone.” Also he is very inte-

rested in the

issue of

discussing

t e r r o r i s m

which is an

up-to-date

topic.

Paul Funck (18): “Every

state wants international safe-

ty and for this we should all

work in concert. Selling atomic

weapons to terrorists should

be prevented.” He saw the DC

as a possibility to have pro-

found debates from Nigerian

point of view.

Max Wollfart (17) :

“Honestly, the UK, that I am

representing, always sticks to

the United States. That‟s why

we also think that nuclear

energy is effective and cheap.”

Max has already attended

MUN conferences nine times,

he started in

class 9. Spe-

cial is also

that he went

to the British

embassy to

be well

enough pre-

pared.

By CHRISTINE RUPPERT

Human Rights Committee gets Visit

On Saturday the Human

Rights Committee (HRC) had

the honour to meet Mrs. Mar-

git Forster, a representative of

the organisation “Solidarity

w i t h W o m e n i n

Distress” (SOLWODI) from

Berlin. While the UN Youth

Delegate Nicolas Klein repor-

ted in front of the General

Assembly, Mrs. Forster shared

her experience of twelve years

working in Africa and 15 years

in Italy. After an introduction

to the topic “Trafficking in

Persons: The Winners and

Losers of Global Market”, the

HRC watched a film concer-

ning this topic. It showed the

destiny of women affected by

human trafficking and sexual

exploitation in a shocking and

moving way. A lecture and an

engaged discussion followed.

Mrs. Forster came not only

to talk about her work, but

also to learn from the delega-

tes by whom she was very

impressed: “I had a quick look

on your resolutions. They

sound really good!” she

complimented the delegates.

The work on these resolutions

was shaped by diversified

impressions from movies,

speeches and discussions. Ne-

vertheless it was not easy to

pass a final resolution because

developing and developed

countries disagreed in several

points. “In the end we passed

the resolution by the develo-

ped nations,

but actually

it‟s pretty

much univer-

sal” told the

Danish dele-

gate Alexan-

der Cohen.

By KRISTIN GRAMSE,

KAROLINE DARMÜNTZEL

and KATE ILYINA

Margit Forster speaks about Winners and Losers of Global Market

Mrs. Margit Forster in the Human Rights

Committee

Page 5 • Issue 3 / 2008 COMMITTEES

UN Youth Delegate speaks

in General Assembly

A real important guest

attended the today‟s General

Assembly: Nicholas Klein –

youth delegate for the UN. He

told the minimized audience

under the interims GA presi-

dent Torge Schwandt about

his work. Since February 2005

he travels with his colleague

through Germany and meets

“as much youth groups as

possible” to stay in touch with

those he is determined to re-

present – the juveniles of Ger-

many. The most important

and moving subjects he trans-

mits the German Delegates

which integrate those topics to

the General Assembly are sup-

posed to be presented in the

General Assembly in Septem-

ber in New York City.

By STELLA MARIA FREI

UN Youth delegate Nicholas

Klein.

Photo: Stella Maria Frei

Discussion about

Democracy in SC

„Yesterday we talked a lot

and didn‟t reach anything”,

says Cuba delegate Rodrigo

Pereira. Today it seemed like

this is past: especially Cuba

and the United Kingdom dis-

cussed their

e x t r e m e l y

d i v e r g e n t

p e r s p e c t i -

v e s .

“Democracy

is never

perfect, eve-

ry country

has the right to establish its

own government system”,

says the committed Cuba dele-

gate. Also such countries as

China and Saudi-Arabia sup-

port the Socialists claim.“ It is

also possible to establish a non

-democratic system while

respecting human rights”, says

the Chinese delegate. Above

all the British delegate cited

Churchill: “Democracy isn‟t

the only

form of go-

vernment –

but the best”

to underline

his affinity

towards the

p o p u l a r

government.

During the debate topics like

Monitoring special agencies

and governments were also

touched.

By STELLA MARIA FREI

Where is the Russian Delegate?

Yesterday the representing

of different countrys in the

Security Council was very

turbulent. After the Russian

delegate appeared without

suit on Friday and getting

trouble because of that he

didn‟t show up in committee

yesterday. So the President,

Friedrich Leukert, and Deputy

President, Perke Jacobs, had to

replace Russian by an other

delegate. The committee deci-

ded to choose former Cuba

delegate Andre Andrade Rose

from Brasilia. He wanted to

replace Russia in order to pass

his resolution.

But not long after this

change Rose

gave the

post of the

delegate

of Russia

to the

f o r m e r

delegate of

Iran.

So the

ending of the

story is that

Russia voted

for the elected

member resolu-

tion and bring

the Presi-

dents‟ ti-

metable

mixed

up.

Even today the

debates in SC

were not pea-

ceful. Accor-

ding to the

President of

the Security

C o u n c i l

Iran, Nor-

way and

Russia want

to stop

o i l

supply for the USA and the

Norway get kicked from the

NATO.

So we see debates in the

SC are every time very inte-

resting. I hope it will be like

this again and again.

By THOMAS WEGENER

Russia disappered in Security Council

“Democracy isn‟t the

only form of government

– but the best” Churchill

BALMUN„s VIPs Baltic Herald Shows you all the Important People of BALMUN 2008

They are always in a hurry

and have no free time at all.

We asked them for an inter-

view a hundred times and

they answered: “Later, later,

later!” But we caught them at

BALMUN dance. So here are

the VIPs.

“Tannemie” one of the

conference managers, the

twins of BALMUN: OLMUN

experience, some sheets of

paper and a bottle of wine was

enough to create this BAL-

MUN. An-

n e m a r i e

Nack said:

“No one

here had

such an

event so we

sat down and wanted to do it

for us in our own way. So we

thought about Baltic MUN.”

Tanja Schmidt: “We were

not best friends before mana-

ging but we became special

friends so now we are closer

than best friends. No one

could imagine that we get all

this staff straight in the head

because we are not typical

MUN participants but as you

see we made it! And the feed-

back is genious and everyone

said we are professionals. We

also thought about next year

and a new team – maybe Frie-

derike Jantzen and Karo

Kieckhäfer will be conference

manager next year. We want

to teach them how to do it.”

Kai Budde, Mister Presi-

dent: “I don‟t believe that all

went so well, all the delegates

were carefully arranged. I like

the team very much; the who-

le conference would be great

when the team is okay. And I

wish for

next year

that the

t e a m

would be

as great as

now. And

the BALMUN would be better,

can you imagine better than

now?! It is important for peo-

ple to get to know each other

so at BALMUN dance it is the

greatest chance to get to know

people from all over the

world! I hope to see everyone

next year again… but I will be

in Bolivia, like a volunteer”

Wencke Lubojanski, "De

Pussy" Secretary General

with an empty glass in her

hand: “The committee‟s

have done a great job and

I really enjoyed the cultu-

ral exchange between the

participants. Of course

there were stressful and messy

moments but I learned to trust

people. MUN is a big event

and you have to share tasks.

The chairs were without an

exception grandiose. So I hope

to see some delegates again.

Thank you for coming and the

great job of the staff, chairs,

press..!!!”

We searched for Torge

Schwandt, Secretary General,

but he came too late to the

disco (nearly at 1 am) when

the most delegates already

gone, as he said us he was

very “busy”, and prepared

himself for a night…

But still we caught him

after morning photographing,

and he answered on couple of

our questions:

“Honestly, I‟m amazed

greatly; we achieved more

than we planned. The confe-

rence is our truly success, we

can be proud of ourselves, we

are professionals! What con-

cerns the mistakes, I suppose

that we will analyze and sum-

marize our job after several

weeks. But now I‟m pleased,

the job was productive and

great. Hopefully we will conti-

nue in the same way!”

By KATE ILYINA

and SOPHIE KAMPF

Issue 3 / 2008 • Page 6 BALMUN

"And the BALMUN

would be better, can you

imagine better than now?!"

Conference managers Annemarie Nack and Tanja Schmidt. Photos: Matthias Bannert

Secreatary General Torge Schwandt and President of the GA

Kai Budde; "De Pussy" Wencke Lubojanski

Page 7 • Issue 3 / 2008 PRESS TEAM

The Most

Interesting

Place

Facts, facts and nothing but

facts! This guideline should

haven been pinned at the door

of room 0.13 where the Press

Team worked (nearly) day and

night to provide you with the

breaking BALMUN news. The

Baltic Herald says thank you to

all those who made room 0.13

to one of the most interesting

places of the conference by

reporting the latest gossip. (Of

course, we only

considered serious

news!) Especially

we would like to

thank all our curi-

ous, interested and

critical readers.

See you at BAL-

MUN 2009!

By KRISTIN GRAMSE

The Daily Way of "The Baltic Herald"

Planning the next

issue and writing

the stories Layouting (by the

way above is the

work place of editor

-in-Chief Matt

Printing the pages

Folding

each

single

issue...

Transporting

newspapers

back to

school

"The Baltic

Herald" is

ready for

release

"Probably the Best

MUN newspaper"

I was really proud and

even more scared as I was told

to lead the first BALMUN

press team. But when I

got first applications I

was really glad. It seems

to me that I got an op-

portunity. An opportu-

nity to work with a

great team. Karoline,

Stella Maria, Lisa, Kris-

tin, Kate, Sophie, Anto-

nia, Jonas, Christine,

Eric and Thomas. They

are all fascinating peo-

ple and amazing journalists.

We worked out the first issue

of The Baltic Herald. And all

BALMUN conferences in futu-

re will have an own newspa-

per, named The Baltic Herald -

the newspaper we created!

We made a newspaper

with service tips, with infor-

mation about our committees,

investigative reports and some

gossip news. (I know you li-

ked our last page most…). All

in all I would say we did a

great job for a MUN newspa-

per. And as I already said in

my speech in the closing cere-

mony: Probably the best MUN

newspaper!

Thank you for all. Thank

you Karoline, Stella Maria,

Lisa, Kristin, Kate, Sophie,

Antonia, Jonas, Christine,

Eric and Thomas for working

with me. Thank you Inner

Circle to trust me. Thank you

all readers, supporters, spon-

sors. And I„d also like to

thank the

future BAL-

MUN team

for keeping

this alive!

And thank

you Mrs.

Koch! We did

the right!

By MATTHIAS BANNERT

Warning note by editor-in

-Chief Matt on personal

belongings

Head of Press Matthias Bannert holding

a speech at the General Assembly

Issue 3 / 2008 • Page 8 GOSSIP PAGE

Delegates Drank Alcohol and

Danced to Trashy Music BALMUN Party Last Night in the Bacio Lounge

Too much alcohol for the

delegates?

Party manager Henning Wulfert

Party and Fun

The Chief of Staff...

Conference manager and Presi-

dent of the GA in a good mood.

Hey Mr. Deejays

BBQ guys

Womanizer Erik

Muttersbach

Young Alex rocks the

dance floor

Where are the suits?

What about the dress

code? Last night eve-

rything was leasure.

Because the "leasure

manager", we call him

party manager, Henning

Wulfert organized a

BALMUN party in the

club Bacio Lounge.

The delegates forgot

about resolutions and

had fun the whole night.

Many of the BALMUN

guests used the oppor-

tunity to flirt with the

honorable MUN mem-

bers or just to drink lots

of alcohol.

More photos on our

website

www.balmun.de

By MATTHIAS

BANNERT