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My college's Model UN club was assigned Burkina Faso; Pardon me as I break something.
Topic Started: Oct 21 2009, 04:21 PM (576 Views)
Tristan da Cunha
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It might be different for us if it were like that.

But damn, BF is one backwater little country. Backwater enough for me so that when the Mt. Holyoke girl tries to egotistically say something about the Czech Republic (something that happened last year) I can come back with something like "Yeah, well we're Burkina Faso. You guys have fun with your fun little Czech language. I'm gonna be speaking French over here with the important countries. Like France."


Is there a more insignificant country assigned than Burkina Faso? Is there another delegation you can look down on?
Edited by Tristan da Cunha, Oct 27 2009, 10:40 PM.
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Tristan da Cunha
Oct 27 2009, 10:40 PM
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It might be different for us if it were like that.

But damn, BF is one backwater little country. Backwater enough for me so that when the Mt. Holyoke girl tries to egotistically say something about the Czech Republic (something that happened last year) I can come back with something like "Yeah, well we're Burkina Faso. You guys have fun with your fun little Czech language. I'm gonna be speaking French over here with the important countries. Like France."


Is there a more insignificant country assigned than Burkina Faso? Is there another delegation you can look down on?
Montenegro and Kosovo maybe, since they're so new, and maybe some non-coastal landlocked countries in Africa that have less arable land.

At least we have gold deposits.

And Atticus: Nope. We can disagree, but then we just sound dumb on a conference-wide stage.
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Tristan da Cunha
Oct 27 2009, 10:40 PM
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It might be different for us if it were like that.

But damn, BF is one backwater little country. Backwater enough for me so that when the Mt. Holyoke girl tries to egotistically say something about the Czech Republic (something that happened last year) I can come back with something like "Yeah, well we're Burkina Faso. You guys have fun with your fun little Czech language. I'm gonna be speaking French over here with the important countries. Like France."


Is there a more insignificant country assigned than Burkina Faso? Is there another delegation you can look down on?
Montenegro and Kosovo maybe, since they're so new, and maybe some non-coastal landlocked countries in Africa that have less arable land.

At least we have gold deposits.

And Atticus: Nope. We can disagree, but then we just sound dumb on a conference-wide stage.
Montenegro is actually a very old country and has existed since the middle ages.
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Tristan da Cunha
Oct 27 2009, 10:40 PM
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It might be different for us if it were like that.

But damn, BF is one backwater little country. Backwater enough for me so that when the Mt. Holyoke girl tries to egotistically say something about the Czech Republic (something that happened last year) I can come back with something like "Yeah, well we're Burkina Faso. You guys have fun with your fun little Czech language. I'm gonna be speaking French over here with the important countries. Like France."


Is there a more insignificant country assigned than Burkina Faso? Is there another delegation you can look down on?
Montenegro and Kosovo maybe, since they're so new, and maybe some non-coastal landlocked countries in Africa that have less arable land.

At least we have gold deposits.

And Atticus: Nope. We can disagree, but then we just sound dumb on a conference-wide stage.
That's lame, what's the point of the UN if you can't slander or try to press laws onto other countries.

If i was you, I would go on a smear campaign just to piss off the rest of the world.
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Oct 27 2009, 10:58 PM
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Oct 27 2009, 10:53 PM
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Oct 27 2009, 10:40 PM
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It might be different for us if it were like that.

But damn, BF is one backwater little country. Backwater enough for me so that when the Mt. Holyoke girl tries to egotistically say something about the Czech Republic (something that happened last year) I can come back with something like "Yeah, well we're Burkina Faso. You guys have fun with your fun little Czech language. I'm gonna be speaking French over here with the important countries. Like France."


Is there a more insignificant country assigned than Burkina Faso? Is there another delegation you can look down on?
Montenegro and Kosovo maybe, since they're so new, and maybe some non-coastal landlocked countries in Africa that have less arable land.

At least we have gold deposits.

And Atticus: Nope. We can disagree, but then we just sound dumb on a conference-wide stage.
Montenegro is actually a very old country and has existed since the middle ages.
Yes, I know. I made a topic about it a while back. In the context of the UN, it's only been independent for so short a period of time, it was still quite useless diplomatically.
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Oct 27 2009, 10:53 PM
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Oct 27 2009, 10:40 PM
Ulgania
 
It might be different for us if it were like that.

But damn, BF is one backwater little country. Backwater enough for me so that when the Mt. Holyoke girl tries to egotistically say something about the Czech Republic (something that happened last year) I can come back with something like "Yeah, well we're Burkina Faso. You guys have fun with your fun little Czech language. I'm gonna be speaking French over here with the important countries. Like France."


Is there a more insignificant country assigned than Burkina Faso? Is there another delegation you can look down on?
Montenegro and Kosovo maybe, since they're so new, and maybe some non-coastal landlocked countries in Africa that have less arable land.

At least we have gold deposits.

And Atticus: Nope. We can disagree, but then we just sound dumb on a conference-wide stage.
Montenegro is actually a very old country and has existed since the middle ages.
Yes, I know. I made a topic about it a while back. In the context of the UN, it's only been independent for so short a period of time, it was still quite useless diplomatically.
That's because the UN is a degenerate institution. In fact, whatever country you are, my advice is simply to leave.
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Now that's like the least fun option on the table :lol:

Last year, the Somalian delegation made an uproar that the USA was making racist comments. They ended up looking like a laughing stock. While it was a decent distraction, it accomplished nothing.
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Perhaps you could annex Togo, and give yourself a coastline?
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As a co-chair to an upcomming conference locally this is the best I can give.

It dosn't matter how insignifigant a country you have. If anything, it gives you more freedom to say whatever you want. Becuase everyone knows how America or Russia thinks, what they say in committee will be scrutinized closer, since no one knows (or really cares) what smaller countries think, they can just go off on whatever political slant they want.

Exploit that your so backwater. :D
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Oct 28 2009, 11:58 AM
As a co-chair to an upcomming conference locally this is the best I can give.

It dosn't matter how insignifigant a country you have. If anything, it gives you more freedom to say whatever you want. Becuase everyone knows how America or Russia thinks, what they say in committee will be scrutinized closer, since no one knows (or really cares) what smaller countries think, they can just go off on whatever political slant they want.

Exploit that your so backwater. :D
That's my plan dude, that's my plan.

Like I said, I need to push the position of Al-Bashir, and his immunity to criminal charges.
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My highschool got France which, obvious French jokes aside, is awesome.
Edited by Quaon, Nov 9 2009, 06:09 PM.
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Nov 9 2009, 06:09 PM
My highschool got France which, obvious French jokes aside, is awesome.
Are you in your club? What committee are you shooting for?

Thought you meant college. Disregard this post.

Still pretty cool though!

My girlfriend's college got Italy last year. Heh.
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The guy who was France in my committee had a French look about his face.

This was back in the days when I held pro-Israel opinions, so I somehow derailed the discussion in my committee by making comments against Palestinians, even though I was FYROM and had no vested interest in that whole region. An ethnically Arab guy felt the need to debate me. He was representing Paraguay or something, so it ended up being FYROM arguing with Paraguay over the issue of Palestinian terrorism in a committee that was supposed to be passing resolutions about environmentalism and conservation. Good times. In the end an actually competent person, representing Kenya, was able to get everything back on track and get resolutions passed that were actually pertinent to environmentalism and conservation.
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The guy who was France in my committee had a French look about his face.

This was back in the days when I held pro-Israel opinions, so I somehow derailed the discussion in my committee by making comments against Palestinians, even though I was FYROM and had no vested interest in that whole region. An ethnically Arab guy felt the need to debate me. He was representing Paraguay or something, so it ended up being FYROM arguing with Paraguay over the issue of Palestinian terrorism in a committee that was supposed to be passing resolutions about environmentalism and conservation. Good times. In the end an actually competent person, representing Kenya, was able to get everything back on track and get resolutions passed that were actually pertinent to environmentalism and conservation.
Kenya helped?

That defies all logic.
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I think Kenya won some award for "best delegate" in my committee.
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That happens.

It's a little unsettling when people who are in character, just representing their given country's views are called out for being racist/insensitive, and a meta-debate being started.

Being Pakistan, I did really care about women's rights or rape being a weapon of war. In fact, given the Pakistani slaughter of East Pakistanis in the 1970s and widespread use of rape, I was trying to keep a neutral stance. Someone from RL Bangladesh called me out on it, calling me, as an RL American a media sellout and other slogans. Kinda useless in the end. :dry:
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To answer your question earlier in regards to is there another more worthless country to be in UN I present to you Palestine.

Palestine, beautiful Palestine, is home to almost four million people some of which are Israeli settlers. Palestine has also been at the centre of world affairs for over sixty years and even longer if you consider its history since the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire (Known to Sed as the second happiest day ever... the first coming on the 18th of April 1949).

"But Draxis," you may ask, "if Palestine is so god damned important as you just said, then why the hell would they be more the most useless country in the UN as you said earlier you hypocritical bastard. Also we hope you die in a fire and burn in hell."

"Well then," I would continue, "you have this strange obsession with fire... note to self buy fire extinguisher and flame retardant suits... you obviously do not know anything about the UN. As Palestine has permanent observer status. At least ALL the other countries get a vote."

And now by this point if Draxis was still alive and Sed had not buried a pick axe in his skull for various reason probably related to honor, or Istanbul or somesuch nonsense Draxis would continue.

*Cut to Draxis with a pickaxe buried in his skull Trotsky style*

Yeah, go after the mustached guy in the room, as it is always the mustached man.

:lol:

Sorry I wanted to have a little bit of fun with it.
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:rofl:

Nice. I actually laughed out loud. My brother is staring at me like I'm crazy now.
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Very nice!

Reminds me of my year as Montenegro. Voting rights? Don't be silly! I made a motion for Serbia to shut the hell up when he complained about Croatia making a congratulatory remark for Kosovo's independence. It's the most productive thing I was able to do all weekend.
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Nov 9 2009, 10:35 PM
Very nice!

Reminds me of my year as Montenegro. Voting rights? Don't be silly! I made a motion for Serbia to shut the hell up when he complained about Croatia making a congratulatory remark for Kosovo's independence. It's the most productive thing I was able to do all weekend.
Serbia was right to complain.
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Kenya helped?

That defies all logic.
They helped with lions and tigers. :P

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Nov 9 2009, 06:55 PM
The guy who was France in my committee had a French look about his face.

This was back in the days when I held pro-Israel opinions, so I somehow derailed the discussion in my committee by making comments against Palestinians, even though I was FYROM and had no vested interest in that whole region. An ethnically Arab guy felt the need to debate me. He was representing Paraguay or something, so it ended up being FYROM arguing with Paraguay over the issue of Palestinian terrorism in a committee that was supposed to be passing resolutions about environmentalism and conservation. Good times. In the end an actually competent person, representing Kenya, was able to get everything back on track and get resolutions passed that were actually pertinent to environmentalism and conservation.
Terrorism is an environmental issue. The explosions throw dust and debris into the air, polluting the local atmosphere, and I'd hazard a guess that many bomb-making materials are not things you want seeping into the ground water. I'm sure anything could be made into an environmental issue. You should have put that anti-Semitic Kenyan delegate back in his place and pushed through a resolution condemning the PLO and Hamas for crimes against the environment.
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The guy who was France in my committee had a French look about his face.

This was back in the days when I held pro-Israel opinions, so I somehow derailed the discussion in my committee by making comments against Palestinians, even though I was FYROM and had no vested interest in that whole region. An ethnically Arab guy felt the need to debate me. He was representing Paraguay or something, so it ended up being FYROM arguing with Paraguay over the issue of Palestinian terrorism in a committee that was supposed to be passing resolutions about environmentalism and conservation. Good times. In the end an actually competent person, representing Kenya, was able to get everything back on track and get resolutions passed that were actually pertinent to environmentalism and conservation.
Terrorism is an environmental issue. The explosions throw dust and debris into the air, polluting the local atmosphere, and I'd hazard a guess that many bomb-making materials are not things you want seeping into the ground water. I'm sure anything could be made into an environmental issue. You should have put that anti-Semitic Kenyan delegate back in his place and pushed through a resolution condemning the PLO and Hamas for crimes against the environment.
I'd like to see that happen, but on the other side of the coin there would be instantaneous reactions of conventional forces pitching the same amount in ten- or a hundredfold.
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Nov 9 2009, 10:38 PM
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Nov 9 2009, 10:35 PM
Very nice!

Reminds me of my year as Montenegro. Voting rights? Don't be silly! I made a motion for Serbia to shut the hell up when he complained about Croatia making a congratulatory remark for Kosovo's independence. It's the most productive thing I was able to do all weekend.
Serbia was right to complain.
Yeah, Serbia was the one being productive here.
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