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SECURITY COUNCIL PROVISIONAL RULES OF PROCEDURE
CHAPTERI. GENERAL PROVISIONS RULE 1 Provisional Rules of Procedure 1. These Provisional Rules of Procedure of the Security Council (hereinafter - the “Provisional Rules of Procedure”, “Rules”) relating to the work of the Model UN Security Council (hereinafter - the Council), shall be approved by the Secretariat before the Model UN starts. Rules of Procedure may be amended only by the Model UN Secretariat. 2. The Right for interpretation of any part of the Provisional Rules of Procedure belongs to the President.
RULE 2 Languages English is considered to be the committee’s only official and working language. All the official documents of the Council shall be written in English.
RULE 3 Delegates 1. Each member of the Council shall be represented at the meetings of the Security Council by one accredited Delegate. 2. Delegates have the right to speak and vote on all issues, if their rights and credentials are not changed in accordance with Rule 5. 3. If a Delegate addresses the committee without permission, exceeds the allowed time for the speech, makes irrelevant or offensive statements, or violates the present Rules in any other way, the President may call him/her to order. 4. Credentials of Delegates may be revoked by Model UN Secretariat in the event of gross and repeated violations of the Provisional Rules of Procedure, disrespectful treatment of the Presidium and other Delegates, Model UN or the United Nations.
RULE 4 Observers Any Member of the United Nations not a member of the Council and any State not a Member of the United Nations, if invited to participate in a meeting or meetings of the Council, shall have the same rights as other Delegates, except - the right to vote, - to be a Sponsor of Draft Resolutions, - to sign Draft Resolutions; - to write and present Amendments.
RULE 5 Credentials 1. The credentials of Delegates and Observers shall be certified by the Model UN Secretariat before the meetings start, as well as during the registration of delegates. Only the President of the Council and (or) the Secretary General of the Model UN may change the rights and powers of Delegates. 2. Delegates shall not abuse these rules, as well as other rights granted to them. 3. During the speech a Delegate may not speak for himself/herself.
RULE 6 Presidency 1. The presidency shall be held by the member of the Security Council. 2. The President shall preside over the meetings of the Security Council and, under the authority of the Security Council, shall represent it in its capacity as an organ of the United Nations. 3. The President shall: - declare the opening and closing of each meeting of the committee; - direct its discussions, ensure observance of the rules of procedure; - accord the right to speak; - put questions and announce decisions; - rule out points of order; - have complete control of the proceedings (p. 9-10) at any meeting and over the maintenance of order thereat. 4. The President may, in the course of the discussion of an item, propose to the committee the limitation of the time to be allowed to speakers, the closure of the list of speakers, or the closure of the debate. The President may also propose the suspension or adjournment of the meeting or the adjournment of debate on the item under discussion. 5. The President shall rule on matters that the Provisional Rules of Procedure leave to his discretion, as well as on any matters relating to the meetings and not regulated by these Rules. 6. The President shall remain impartial. The President shall abstain from making statements on substantive issues under discussion, except in cases when the President is the representative of the Security Council’s member state.
RULE 7 Secretariat 1. The Secretary-General shall act in that capacity in all meetings of the Security Council. The Secretary-General may authorize a deputy to act in his place at meetings of the Security Council. 2. The Secretary-General, or his deputy acting on his behalf, may make either oral or written statements to the Security Council concerning any question under consideration by it. 3. The Secretary-General shall provide the staff required by the Security Council. This staff shall be presented by the Expert and the Secretary. The Presidium of the Council consists of the President, the Expert and the Secretary. 4. The Secretary shall be responsible for the preparation of documents required by the Security Council and shall, except in urgent circumstances, distribute them in advance of the meeting at which they are to be considered. 5. The Expert counsels on account of all the draft resolutions, working papers, amendments, the form of the document, the observance of the international law and accordance with the previous decisions of the Security Council. The decision of the expert is not a subject to appeal. The President or a Delegate may at any time introduce a Question to the Expert on factual or legal points.
RULE 8 Agenda 1. The provisional agenda for each meeting of the Security Council shall be drawn up by the Secretariat RULE 9 Quorum 1. A committee meeting can be opened provided the 2/3 of the Delegates are present. 2. In order to establish presence, the President, prior to the opening of the meeting, proceeds to a roll call in the course of which he/she calls upon Delegates in English alphabetical order. Each Delegate should state whether he/she is “present” or “present and voting” (Rule 31). RULE 10 Time Limitations 1. The Speaking time is set on the proposal of Delegates or the President. 2. If a delegate exceeds the allotted time, the President shall call him/her to order. 3. The Speaking time includes the speech on the substance of the matter under discussion and time for questions to the speaker. 4. A Delegate may, at any time when the floor is open, but not during speeches, introduce a motion to moderate the speaking time. This motion is non-debatable and passes to the vote of the Council. RULE 11 Speakers’ List 1. If not decided upon differently, formal debate rules apply. The President shall keep a Speakers’ List, which determines the order of speeches. 2. A Delegate may request to have the name of his/her delegation added to the Speakers’ List as well as change his position in it by raising his/her placard. 3. If circumstances do not allow to clearly determine which Delegate has raised his/her placard first, the President shall decide on the order of the Speakers’ List by taking into account considerations of equity and the good functioning of the committee. 4. A Delegate whose delegation’s name is already set forth on the Speakers’ List shall not be added again until he/she completes his/her speech. 5. No Delegate may address a committee without having previously obtained the permission of the President. 6. If not decided upon differently the Speakers’ List is set in the alphabetical order.
RULE 12 Point of Personal Privilege 1. A Delegate may at any time introduce a Point of Personal Privilege in order to remove a physical discomfort, which impairs his/her ability to participate in the proceedings. The Delegate when called by the President shall explain his/her grievance. The President may rule out a Point of Personal Privilege. The decision of the President is not subject to appeal. 2. A Delegate may not, in raising the Point of Personal Privilege, speak on the substance of the matter under discussion.
RULE 13 Point of Order 1. A Delegate may at any time when the floor is open but not during speeches introduce a Point of Order to complain about improper parliamentary procedure. The Delegate when called by the President shall explain the grievance. The President may rule out a Point of Order. The decision of the President is not subject to appeal. 2. A Delegate may not, in raising the Point of Order, speak on the substance of the matter under discussion.
RULE 14 Parliamentary Inquiry A Delegate may at any time when the floor is open, but not during speeches, introduce a Parliamentary Inquiry in order to clarify a technical point regarding the present Rules. The Delegate when called by the President shall make the point. The President shall respond to the Delegate’s concern and attempt to clarify the matter.
RULE 15 Right of Reply 1. A Delegate whose personal or national integrity has been impugned by anotherDelegate may, at the end of the latter’s speech, request the Right of Reply, explain it in the written form and send it to the President. The President shall decide upon the request immediately. The decision of the President is not subject to appeal. If the Right of Reply is granted, the wronged Delegate may speak during one (1) minute.
2. A Right of Reply to a Right of Reply is not in order.
RULE 16 Motion for Moderated Caucus 1. Moderated Caucus interrupts a formal debate for a time specified by the Delegate, introducing the Motion, or President. No Speakers’ List shall be kept. A Delegate may signal desire to speak by raising the placard. The President designates the speakers taking into consideration equity and the good functioning of the committee. The decision of the President is not subject to appeal. The President shall limit the speaking time. 2. A Delegate may at any time when the floor is open, but not during speeches, introduce a Motion for Moderated Caucus. The Delegate shall when called by the President to explain the purpose of the motion and propose a time for the Caucus. 3. The Motion for Moderated Caucus requires the support of a second Delegate, is non-debatable and shall immediately be put to vote. A majority of Delegates present is required for the Motion for Moderated Caucus to pass. The President may rule the Motion for Moderated Caucus out of order.
RULE 18 Motion to Reconsider 1. The Motion is used to bring a resolution or topic that has been previously tabled back to the floor. 2. A Delegate may at any time when the floor is open, but not during speeches, introduce a Motion to Reconsider. The Motion requires the support of a second Delegate. The President may rule out the Motion to Reconsider. The decision of the President is subject to appeal and can be ruled out by two thirds of Delegates present. 3. The Motion to Reconsider is a debatable motion. 4. The votes of the two thirds Delegates present are required for the Motion to Reconsider to pass. RULE 21 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.
a) delete a point / delete a phrase / delete a word; 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.
MOTIONS AND POINT OF ORDER
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