Model United Nations Mission Report: Promoting Sustainable Development Goals 2030 by Dararath Uk

KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA

Nation Religion King

 ក្រសួងការបរទេស និងសហប្រតិបត្តិការអន្តរជាតិ

       MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

  AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Committee : United Nations General Assembly 
Topics         : Promoting Sustainable Development Goals 2030 
Delegate     : Uk Dararath

To Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, 

Cambodia enthusiastically attended the United Nations General Assembly which took place on May 18th at the United Nations Headquarter, New York. The committee discussed on “the Promoting Sustainable Development Goals 2030.” The discussion was to seek for mechanisms where the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 could be achieved. All the 17 goals were included and three of which, including ends of poverty, climate action, and partnership, were the main focus of the meeting. A number of recommendations from different states and especially from Kingdom of Cambodia were raised. 

About half of the member states attending the assembly registered for speaker-list. Most of the registering states raised their concerns and past actions and successful experience they have improved the issues as well as most importantly their respective recommendations to the committee to adopt to promote the sustainable development goals. Most of the concerns from developing states were in regards to the lack of ability to implement their existing policies. The lack of financial and technical availability remained the major concerns. Developed member states in the committee agreed to provide some aids in voluntary base and encouraged developing states to also put more efforts in improving its own capacity along with the aids given. 

China proposed to have 2 percentage of developed states’ GPD for aids to improve sectors to promote the sustainable development goals. Developed countries namely Belgium, New Zealand and Germany and Indonesia rejected such proposal although there was a favor from Myanmar, while some other developing countries including Kingdom of Cambodia remained neutral. After negotiation, developed states agreed to provide financial and technical supports to developing states but it shall be provided in voluntary base and with accountability and transparency delivery. Moreover, China urged all states to restrict national laws to prevent the private sectors’ contribution affecting the environment to reinforce the previous conventions including Paris Agreement and to obligate to update their actions every five years.

Kingdom of Cambodia has also contributed numerous recommendations and shared our successful stories including our great achievements in the Millennium Development Goals which had been incorporated with national Cambodian Millennium Development Goals and National Strategic Development Plan. Kingdom of Cambodia urged all member states to localize the sustainable development goals; encouraged the establishment of technical working group to contribute recommendations and monitor policies; called for cooperation among states and non-state actors to improve the investment in health, education, social protection and environment; encouraged more free and fair trade and investment. With such contribution, a numerous clauses were adopted in the resolutions and some most important of which included the encouragement of cooperation, bilaterally and multilaterally to achieve  trade liberalization, the elimination of trade barriers and promotion of free and fair trade; the providence of technical and financial assistance in voluntary base; maintaining accountability and transparency in action plans, respect of human rights, rule of law; and encouragement of the implementation of the SDG to national level and sub national level or national laws. 

We realized that in this respective meeting, there were several conflicting interests between developed and developing states. As per discussion, it was important to balance the interest between these two blocs. Therefore, it was an utmost importance to have delegations who were skillful in negotiating and making best of the interest for our nation and the whole world. In sum up, this General Assembly on the Promoting the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 was successful with great outcomes to achieve all the goals and to make our nation as well as the world prosperous. 

Disclaimer: This mission report is written by a Cambodian student delegate solely for simulation and academic purposes . These views herein do not in any way represent the view of any Cambodian university and ministry and government. 

***This article is published here in the purpose of sharing the format/sample of the mission report for Model United Nations. I am aware that there are many rooms to improve for this paper.

Higher Education in ASEAN Countries and the Region: Cambodia by Uk Dararath

Higher Education in ASEAN Countries and the Region: Cambodia 

Committee: EU-SHARE

Topic: Higher Education in ASEAN Countries and the Region

Country: Kingdom of Cambodia

Delegates: Dararath Uk, Gechny Sokkhea, Thida Sann, Solinda Boy, Monyrath Keo and Morokoth Chhuon

Mr. Chair, your Excellencies, professors, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen, very good afternoon. 

It is our privilege and exciting moment to represent Cambodia on international stage, the First Student Mobility Forum, whose theme we are now discussing on is “Higher Education in ASEAN Countries and the Region.”Education plays very important roles in bringing about development, economic growth and prosperity in society as well as the entire world. As Nelson Mandela states, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” In particular, higher education plays an important role in human resource development and it is a key sub-sector contributing to socio-economic development of each nation. 

Higher education in Cambodia has grown significantly showing its improvement in recent years. The number of higher education institutions and students have grown rapidly. To respond to the demand of Human Capital Resources and education, in 1990, the Higher Education principle was reformed and the private partnership was introduced which it allowed higher education institutions in Cambodia to mushroom with the increase of private universities up to 64, and public higher institutions to 39 in 2014. The number of students enrolled in higher institutions has grown remarkably from 10,000 in the early 1990s to more than 200,000 in 2013.

Higher education in Cambodia provides students with knowledge and skills that help them contribute fully to national development and labour market needs; employment related-skills; and understanding of and positive attitude towards work and a capacity to manage and work effectively and harmoniously with others. Social science and business related majors are among most popular courses by the majority of students. However, this poses challenges that there is a mismatch between the needs of the labor market and the current products on the market.  While Cambodia needs more human resources on science, technology, engineering and agriculture which these areas of study are considered to be key skills to foster the growth of the Cambodian economy, only a small percentage of students take these courses.

In additions, there are other several challenges of higher education in Cambodia. First, domestically, in a less developed countries like Cambodia, development gaps between the city and provinces are so big and inadequate access to higher education is clear. Regarding the quality of higher education, there is a lack of research institutions. Although there are several, the limited access and availability still remain. Students acquire knowledge based on traditional classes and lectures. This limitation of research-based study contains students’ knowledge and ability to discover new technology and knowledge to use in society. Last but not least, international recognition and limitation of students to have foreign mobility are also challenges.  

To tackle these issues, based on our perspectives, these recommendations should be considered as following; 

1. All institutions related to Higher Education need to pay attention on their curriculum regarding the quality and the learning outcomes. 

2. Non-CLMV states should provide technical and financial support and assistance to improve and enhance the quality of education in CLMV countries.

3. ASEAN should work on the establishment of funded motilities and form the regional structural body on education with the financial and technical contributions and assistance from each ASEAN member states.

We, as delegates from Cambodia, appreciate this forum and this discussion particularly and look forward to a fruitful outcome from this meeting.   

Sincerely yours, 

Disclaimer: This script is written by Cambodian student delegates solely for simulation purposes . This views herein do not in any way represent the view of any Cambodian university and Ministry of Education and government.

Cambodia's Position: Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers

Committee: General Assembly

Topic: Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers

Country: Kingdom of Cambodia

Delegate: Uk Dararath

The migration has become easier in this globalized world. Each year, millions of workers seek for jobs in another country. About USD 601 billion in terms of remittance has been generated from migrant workers, and most of this amount goes to developing countries. While the migration is beneficial for workers and employees, it, the same time, has posed many challenges to international security and migrant workers. These migrant workers’ rights are not well-protected. Recognizing the mistreatment of migrant workers, Cambodia stays firmly to promote and protect the rights of migrant workers.

Between 350,000 and 700,000 Cambodian workers seeks for jobs abroad. Right violation cases to Cambodian migrant workers have been recorded. To respond to this, Cambodia has been working seriously to protect and promote the rights of migrant workers, not only Cambodian migrant workers working abroad but also migrant workers working in Cambodia. Domestically, Cambodia has been working and implementing Policy on Labour Migration for Cambodia 2015- 2018 whose aims are to strengthen governance of labour migration, protection and empowerment of men and women migrant workers and harnessing labour migration for development. Various institutions are also working on the migrantation issue and some of which include within the Labour Migration Policy for Cambodia, the National Employment Policy, the National Strategic Development Plan, and the Rectangular Strategy Phase III, the Department of Employment and Manpower, Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training. Globally, Cambodia has been working collaboratively with other states bilaterally and multilaterally and with regional and international institutions to make ensure the safety and rights of migrant workers. Cambodia has signed the ASEAN Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers in 2007.

Cambodia would like to propose a number of recommendation in regards to the mechanism to promote and protect the rights of migrant workers.

• The establishment of regional cooperation to promote decent, humane, productive, dignified and remunerative employment for migrant as well as capacity building by sharing of information and  data sharing on matters related to migrant workers;

• The establishment of bilateral cooperation between sending state and receiving state to work closely with each other for information sharing, monitoring protecting and rescuing;

• Providing migrant workers with accessibility and facilitation to the legal and judicial system in case they are violated in any picture.

Cambodia believes that these actions are truly important to promote and protect the rights of migrant workers and looks forwards to a fruitful discussion and outcome from this respective meeting.

Disclaimer: This position paper is written by a Cambodian student delegate solely for simulation and academic purposes . These views herein do not in any way represent the view of any Cambodian university and ministry and government. 


***This article is published here in the purpose of sharing the format/sample of the position paper for Model United Nations. I am aware that there are many rooms to improve for this paper.