IIMUN Day 2

Duration: 13 hours

Today was the day when all my training and rigorous hard work came into action. I was in the DISEC committee and m agenda was legality of drone warfare. I was the delegate of USA, who played a predominant role in the drone strikes. It has been conducting strikes ever since Bush's time. These strikes become more frequent during Obama's presidency. When I entered the room I could see everybody's eyes stuck on the placard of USA, they all searched for the person who would take that seat and when I went and sat on that seat, I could see all the eyes fixed on me and murmurs rising. Soon the delegate of Qatar came up to me and said she was on my side.

Nervously I sunk into my chair. I couldn't feel more scared with all 55 eyes stuck on my placard. I quickly searched for the delegates of Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, Russia, China and Iran, all of whom were in bad terms with USA.

Soon the chair entered the room and had an introduction session. We then moved into debate, starting with General Speakers List. The Chair chose to go in the order of our choice but being the delegate of USA I had no other choice but speak at the earliest to keep the committee moving. My opening speech was assertive and clear. I quoted Obama saying “I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven”

This way I made my stand clear that the US strongly believes that drones are the most effective and efficient way to counter terrorism and weaken them. Drones and UAVs does not only reduce civilian casualties but are also relatively accurate and successful. Drone strikes, in US's opinion, are quicker and constructive and the US will continue to perform drone strikes until it has rooted up all the terrorist groups threatening the US.

There were a lot of oohs and woos in the room but I chose to ignore them and yield my time to questions which were raised by delegate of China and Saudi Arabia. After this there were various speeches and I meticulously noted the countries on my side. First session consisted only of GSL while the second committee session was full of joint statements and presidential statements.

In the first time of human history, DPRK and South Korea had made a joint statement of becoming friends and producing drones. Eventually USA had to cut alliances with South Korea for shaking hands with it's enemies. Again, India and China made a joint statement against USA, I lost another ally. Finally France ditched UK and eventually USA too. The committee went upside down. Everything in my favor was now against me. I didn't know what to do and this is when one friend suggested to use their policies against them. This is when I went up to France and reminded him about is policy who then agreed to stay on my side. I continued lobbying and debating during unmods. Soon there were two solid blocs, one with USA and one against.

We had a few mods and I submitted my working papers in the end. I had lost hopes in my committee when they changed their policies totally.

We then had a social event which had dance and lobbying again.