Precedence of Points and Motions

 

Points and Motions will be considered in the following order of preference:

1. Points in order at any time including during speeches and voting procedure

 

a. Point of Personal Privilege (Rule 12)

2. Point in order when the floor is open

 

a. Point of Parliamentary Inquiry (Rule 14)

b. Point of Order (Rule 13)

3. Non-debatable motions in order when the floor is open

 

a. Motion for Unmoderated Caucus (Rule 16)

b. Motion for Moderated Caucus (Rule 17)

 c. Motion to Moderate the Speaking Time (Rule 10§4)

 d. Motion for Closure of the Debate (Rule 18)

e. Motion for Suspension of the Meeting (Rule 21)

f. Motion for Adjournment of the Debate (Rule 19)

g. Motion for Adjournment of the Meeting (Rule 22)

CHAPTER III. RESOLUTIONS

 

RULE 24

Draft Resolutions

1. The President approves a document if it has the required format. A minimum of one sponsor is required for the Draft Resolution to be further discussed. An approved document is referred to as a Draft Resolution and may be introduced to the committee.

2. Sponsors are recognized as the writers of the Draft Resolution.

3. Signatories are recognized as the supporters of the discussion on Draft Resolution and do not have further obligations. Any delegate can be either a sponsor of one draft resolution or a signature of any number of Draft Resolutions. A Delegate may not at the same time be a Sponsor as well as a Signatory of a given Draft Resolution.

 

4. Delegates may add their name to the list of Signatories at any time during the debate. This request should be submitted in written form to the President for approval.

 

5. More than one Draft Resolution may be on the floor at any time.   

6.      If two or more Draft Resolutions relate to the same question, they shall be voted on in the order they were submitted.

 

RULE 25

Introducing Resolutions

1. If a Draft Resolution has been approved by the President and the Expert, the Secretariat assigns it a number and distributes the Draft Resolution to all the Delegates. A Sponsor of the Draft Resolution may introduce the Resolution when he/she has the floor.

2. The time limit for the introduction of the Draft Resolution shall be decided by the Committee.

 

3. When the Draft Resolution is adopted by the Council, it becomes a Working Paper.

 

RULE 26

Withdrawal of Resolutions

A Draft Resolution may be withdrawn by its Sponsors at any time before voting on it has commenced. This request should be submitted in written form to the President. A Draft Resolution may not be withdrawn if an Unfriendly Amendment to it is on the floor.

 

CHAPTER IV. AMENDMENTS

 

RULE 27

Amendments

1. An Amendment is a motion that just adds something to a Working Paper, excludes something from it, or alters its part.

2. Amendments are to be presented to the Expert in the written form. They are estimated to correspond with the International Law and previous UN resolutions. After that they are handed on to the President of the Council. Each Amendment should be written or typed on a separate paper and include an exact direction to which part of Working Paper it refers and which country proposes it.

3. Amendments to the preamble clauses are not in order.

4. Grammatical, spelling and formatting errors in Working Papers will be corrected without a vote. The final decisions on corrections are at the discretion of the President.

5. Amendments to Amendments to Amendments are not in order.

 

RULE 28

Introducing Amendments

1. When an Amendment is moved to a Working Paper, the Amendments shall be introduced by the Sponsor and voted on.

2.      If two or more Amendments to a Working Paper are proposed, the President shall determine the order in which they are voted upon. The committee shall first vote on the Amendment furthest removed in substance from the Working Paper and then on the Amendment next furthest removed until all Amendments have been put to the vote. However, where the adoption of one Amendment necessarily implies the rejection of another Amendment, the latter shall not be put to the vote. The committee will consider a Working Paper including all Amendments adopted by the committee.

3.      Prior to the vote on an Amendment, the President shall consider at least one (1) speaker in favor and one (1) speaker opposed to each Amendment and shall give each of them one (1) minute to present their position to the committee.

 

RULE 29

Amendments to Amendments

1. An Amendment to Amendment is a motion that just adds something to an Amendment, excludes something from it, or alters its part.

2. An Amendment to Amendment is presented orally during the discussion of the

 

main Amendment.

 

3. A Delegate who proposes it must formulate the motion clearly. Besides the Debate over the Amendment to Amendment is going beyond the time limit set for the Debates over the main Amendment.

 

4. Submitting an Amendment to Amendment after voting on the main Amendment is not allowed.

 

5. Several Amendments to the same Amendment are to be debated over in chronological order.

6. If an amendment to amendment is considered to be friendly by the sponsor of the main amendment it passes without voting but if it is considered to be unfriendly it should be put to the vote.

 

7. After voting on Amendment to Amendment the Council returns to the debates over the main Amendment.

 

RULE 30

Withdrawal of Amendments

An Amendment may be withdrawn by its Sponsors at any time before voting on it has commenced.

CHAPTER V. VOTING

 

RULE 31

Voting

1.      Each member of the Security Council shall have one vote.

2.      Decisions of the Security Council on procedural matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of a simple majority (50%+1) of the members.

3.      Decisions of the Security Council on substantive matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of two thirds members including the concurring votes of the permanent members, provided that a party to a dispute shall abstain from voting.

4.      On procedural matters Delegates must not abstain from voting. Delegates recognized prior to the opening of the meeting as ‘present and voting’ must not abstain from voting on any kind of matters.

5.      The voting procedure must not be interrupted except to raise a Point of Personal Privilege.

 

RULE 32

Use of the Veto

A Permanent Member using its veto should explain the reason for doing so orally to the Security Council immediately after the voting procedure.

If a permanent member does not fully agree with a proposed resolution but does not wish to cast a veto, it may choose to abstain, thus allowing the resolution to be adopted if it obtains the required number of nine favourable votes.

 

RULE 33

Modes of Voting

1.      If not decided upon differently, Delegates vote by raising their placards.

2.      For substantive matters, a Delegate may request a roll-call vote. This request is automatically accepted unless ruled out by the President. The decision of the President is not subject to appeal.

3.      A roll-call vote takes place according to the English alphabetical order of the names of the States represented in the committee, beginning with the State whose name is drawn by lot by the President. The name of each State shall subsequently be called by the President.The Delegates shall reply “Yes”, “No” or “Abstain” (in the event if Delegate is only present).

FLOW OF DEBATE

1. The president calls delegates to order so as to open the working session.

 

2. The roll call should be ruled out by the President to establish quorum:

- The meeting can be opened by the President provided simple majority (1\2+1) and qualified majority (2\3) of the delegates are present;

- If quorum is not established the delegates may proceed to unmoderated caucus to discuss a certain issue but without any right to vote on the matter that is under consideration.

 

3. Positions of the countries are presented during the formal debate. Time specified for presenting positions including questions should be set up by the committee through the voting procedure. If not decided upon differently the Speakers’ List is held in the alphabetical order. Each delegation has a right either to be added or excluded from the List.

 

4. Committee proceeds to informal debates that have two forms:

a) moderated caucus: delegates have to set up the time limit for moderated caucus itself and specify the time which is given to each speaker. Committee’s Secretary is in charge of composing the Speakers’ List;

б) unmoderated caucus: no Speakers’ List is used during unmoderated caucus, delegates shall only set the time limit for negotiations. The designated time allows delegates to discuss all the matters and write draft resolutions. The draft resolution should be send to Expert for the sake of analyzing the contest and examining for compliance with international law and resolutions previously accepted by the UN bodies. Committee’s secretary has to verify the document in accordance with standards used for creating resolutions. The President signs the document and gives it a registration number. Copies of the draft resolution are distributed among all the delegates present.

 

5. Committee proceeds to formal debates to present draft resolutions. Time limit (including questions) should be established for each Sponsor to deliver a speech. All the papers are considered according to their registration number. Before presenting the draft resolution the Presidency has to identify if there are speakers “in favour” and “against” each of the resolutions prepared.

 

6. The Committee proceeds to voting on the adoption of a working paper. The Committee may adopt several working papers, which have to be considered in accordance with their registration number.

7. Committee proceeds to an unmoderated caucus to write amendments to the working paper. The time limit for the informal debate is set by the Committee. Each amendment must be approved by the Presidium, passed to the Secretary and put under subsequent consideration by the committee.

8. The Committee proceeds to moderated caucus for amendments after setting the time-limit for the presentation of each amendment, including questions, as well as the time and number of speakers " for" and " against" the amendment. After the presentation of the amendment but before and before the voting the amendment to an amendment may be offered:

- If an amendment to the amendment is considered to be friendly by the author of the main amendment, then it automatically becomes a part of the amendment. Then the whole amendment passes through a voting procedure to be added to the text of the working paper;

- If he author of the main amendment perceives an amendment to the amendment as an unfriendly one

-the Committee votes for an amendment to the amendment and then proceeds to voting on the whole amendment to be added to the text of the working paper.

Amendments shall be considered in the order of their registration in the Presidium in accordance with the following criteria:

a) delete a point / delete a phrase / delete a word;
b) change a word in the paragraph / sentence;
c) add a phrase / word;
g) add a point after the point;
d) add a new point.

9. After all amendments, the Committee proceeds to vote on the adoption of a final resolution by a simple majority.

10. The President declares the closure of the session.

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