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supporting subsidiaries, programs, and institutes that
report to the General Assembly. The subsidiary bodies
and programs run the gamut covering nearly all major
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the disarmament and international Security
Committee is the First Committee of the General
Assembly of the United Nations. The committee deals
with disarmament, global challenges, and threats
to peace that affect the international community
and seeks out solutions to the challenges in the
international security regime. 4 Furthermore, the
Committee collaborates with the United Nations
Disarmament Commission and the Geneva-based
Conference on disarmament to further its goals.
The First Committee provides a forum in which
member states can voice their positions and opinions
on disarmament and security related matters and
provides a platform through which nations can reach
common understandings and agree on universal
norms of behavior.
Significant past achievements of the Committee
include the passage of the treaty on the Non-
Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the Chemical
Weapons, Convention the Biological Weapons
Convention, and the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
Topic A: Territorial Disputes and
Underwater Resources
Statement of the Problem
As the world depletes its easily accessible natural
resources, nations are venturing farther and deeper
into the ocean than ever before to acquire the raw
materials that drive economic growth. Economic and
technological factors facilitate the exploration and
drilling for these underwater resources. As prices of
accessible natural resources rise, both state-owned
and private energy companies become more willing
to make expenditures on research and development
to explore the ocean bed for resources. Furthermore,
better technology and equipment allow these
companies to drill deeper and in more innovative
ways. These firms often act under either direct or
subtle encouragement by their national governments,
as governments are eager to maintain access to
resources that power their economies. The scramble
over underwater resources has inevitably led to
conflicts due, in part, to the current legal framework.
While the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea gives
countries sovereign claim over the seabed within a
certain distance of their shoreline, countries often
have overlapping and competing claims to the same
territory. Consequently, military and political conflicts
have risen over territorial claims in places like the
South China Sea and the Arctic Circle. It will be your
responsibility to craft the framework within which
countries can work together to discover, develop,
and use natural resources that lie beneath the ocean.
While recent territorial conflicts have centered on the
South China Sea and the Arctic Circle, there are still
vast amounts of the ocean whose sovereign claims
are being debated. Consequently, the discussion
will focus on creating an international framework to
resolve current crises and provide guidance for future
ones.
History and Discussion of the Problem
The South China Sea Conflict
the South China Sea is an area that includes the
Paracels and Spratlys islands. interest in the two
archipelagoes began when the French came to the
region and claimed both the Paracels and the Spratlys
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