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MUN ROP(RULES OF PROCEDURE)

Roll call
Roll call is similar to taking attendance in a class. There are two answers you can give when
answering roll call.
1) Present - saying present, is just a way of saying that you exist in committee. You will take
part and make speeches, but you won't vote on the important documents and whatnot.
2) present and voting - saying present and voting, means that you exist in committee, and that
you will be voting on everything. You can change your roll from present to present and voting
when we take roll call, but you cannot change from present and voting back to present.

Debate is of two types in an MUN. Formal and Informal.

Formal debate - it consists of GSLs and Moderated caucuses.


1) GSL - The GSL is the first speech you make in committee. It consists of a 90 second speech
on your country's general stance on the agenda, and any and all thoughts your country wishes
to share about it. If the GSL list ever finishes, it means that committee has ended. Therefore, we
will be constantly taking names in between debate. If you finish before 90 seconds, you have
three choices. 1) give your time to the executive board 2) give your time to another delegate and
they will speak for the time left 3) yield to questions and comments, which has been discussed
under Points below.
2) Moderated caucuses - In an MUN, the agenda is always large and global. As a result, the
topic has to be broken down into smaller subtopics that have to be discussed. These are called
moderated caucuses. Now, while raising a moderated caucus, (format is given under motions),
a few things have to be kept in mind.
i) The subtopic has to be related to the agenda.
ii) Two things have to be mentioned. One, the total speaker's time, like 25 minutes, and the
individual speaker's time, like 1 minute. So, the total speaker's time must be divisible by the
individual speaker's time. Taking the above example, with 25:1, it means that 25 people can
speak on the subtopic decided, with each person getting one minute to speak.
iii) Do not exceed 25 minutes as your total speaker's time. Try looking into your country's foreign
policy, to determine who are your allies and enemies, so you can discuss the topics with them,
and then raise them.

Informal debate : It consists of unmoderated caucuses. In an unmoderated caucus, we, the


executive board will leave the room, and you, the delegates are free to discuss, and (within the
boundaries of diplomacy) try to convince others to follow your view. Basically, you can do
anything, as long as it's productive, and not a waste of time, so try not to raise too many
unmoderated caucuses. The format for raising one is given under motions.

Motions
The basic principle of an MUN is democracy, where everyone votes. Now, what do you vote on
? Motions. In an MUN, you raise motions for anything and everything. Here are some of the
common things you raise motions for:

1) setting the agenda. Now this refers to literally set the topic you are going to speak about, in
committee. You cannot sit in committee doing nothing, so you set the agenda. Please note, you
will be setting the agenda as the topic that has been given to you.
The format is:
"With the prior permission of the executive board, the delegate of (_______________) would
like to raise a motion to set the agenda as the topic "_____"
2) GSLs
The format:
"With the prior permission of the executive board, the delegate of (_______________) would
like to raise a motion to move into GSLs"
3) Moderated caucuses and unmoderated caucuses. The format:
Moderated caucus : "With the prior permission of the executive board, the delegate of
(_______________) would like to raise a motion to move into a moderated caucus on the topic
"____________" for a total speaker's time of "______" and individual speaker's time of "_____"

Unmoderated caucus : "With the prior permission of the executive board, the delegate of
(_______________) would like to raise a motion to move into an unmoderated caucus for a
duration of "___________"

Please note, you can only raise motions when we, the executive board say the following
statement : "Delegates, are there any motions on the floor ?"

Voting
In an MUN, you will be voting for anything and everything. Voting follows the principle of simple
majority, where, for anything to pass, the following must be satisfied

Simple majority pass = (total committee ÷ 2) + 1 must vote yes.


Example : if there are 20 delegates in a committee, then for a motion to pass, (20÷2)+1 = 11
delegates must vote yes for anything to pass.

Sometimes, if we in the EB feel that something can be passed without any voting, we'll ask for
the motion, and we'll say that the motion is passed by the discretion of the executive board, and
the motion will be in order.

Points
There are 4 points. After every GSL speech, we'll be asking for these points, in this order.
1) Point of Personal privilege. : This is the only point that can interrupt a delegate's speech. You
raise this point if you have a request, like you want the delegate to speak slower, or repeat
something, or something like that.
2) point of order. This is raised on points that are completely innacurate. For example, if a
delegate says that kolkata is the capital of India, you can raise a point of order after the speech
in the following format. "The delegate of "________" stated in his speech that "kolkata is the
capital of India". This is wrong as the capital of India is Delhi. "
Please note, you cannot raise points of order on logical problems and opinions, as you cannot
raise anything on a delegate's opinion, but only on their facts.
3) point of parliamentary enquiry. This is raised when you don't know what is happening in
committee, or you have a doubt related to committee proceedings.
4) Point of information. This is basically asking a question or passing a comment on a delegate's
speech. We will take points of information, only if a delegate yields their remaining time to
questions and comments, and the number of points of information allowed will depend on the
time left.
Please note, you cannot raise points of order and information on moderated caucuses. They
can only be raised on GSLs.

Chits
Now, if you wanted to ask a question to a delegate, but did not get picked, you can send it as a
chit to them. The format is as follows
From : the delegate of "__________"
To : The delegate of "_________"
" (Ask your question here)"

There are two types of chits.


1) Chits via EB, where you send the chits to us, we mark it and send it to whoever you asked
the question to
2) direct chit, where you directly send the chit to delegate.
Please note, we recommend that you all send the chits via EB.

Committee closure.
Committee can end in a few ways.
1) the GSL list gets over and committee ends
2) You, the delegates make some sort of documentation which is presented to committee, and
after its discussion, committee ends.
3) closing statements, where you the delegates just make a final speech about whatever you
want to say and conclude with, in committee.

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