Position Paper

Country: Plurinational State of Bolivia/ Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia

Committee: United Nations Security Council

Country Background:
The Plurinational State of Bolivia is an unitary presidential constitutional republic,
landlocked in South America. Bolivia gained independence from the Spanish Empire in 1825,
and has since remained a republic closely tied in ethno-cultural relations with other Latin-
american states. The State has a strong export economy focused around petroleum gases and
metal ores, with a GDP per capita of around USD 4000. Its current head of state is President
Evo Morales.

Topic 1: RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION

Bolivian Stance:
Current Situation

With a number of movements for self-rule spiralling throughout the world, freedoms
and rights are being oppressed by nationalistic and oppressive regimes. As defining what and
which movements get to be classified as justifiable and/or necessary; the boundaries are
always narrow. A proper framework to define such irregularities within the definition of self-
determination is somewhat yet to be constructed. This has resulted in a number of military
and nationalist interventions and conflicts to break out.

Suggested Solutions

The state of Bolivia believes in the importance and vitality in peaceful

transformations and resolutions of all movements of self-determination. It understands the
four variations of such movements, and feels the urge to define them with proper regularity
and the systematic enforcement of any security council resolution, that sufficiently creates
peace and stability in the concerned regions and states.

Bolivia believes in establishing a proper constructive framework for each of the concerned
variations. Beginning with redefining the right to self-determination. Where we believe it
stands as the right of a group of people(s) who wish to seperate or cede to be a part of an
existing territory/nation from its status quo to a level of independence that is deemed
reasonable and sufficient.
Bolivia wishes to to see an established system of checks and balances that democratically see
to any movements of self-determination. This may include the use of existing UN bodies to
act as the operations behind any democratic process of self-determination, and to control and
resolve the outbreak of any armed conflicts and/or human right violations within concerning
states.

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COMMENTS: Hardly any substantial content, whether it be the section on background or

proposed solutions. Between this, the utterly abysmal sentence structures, and the complete
lack of citations, it is hard to find any redeeming features in this Position Paper.
Topic 2: Foreign Intervention in the Yemeni Civil War

Bolivia Stance:
Current Situation

Yemen, a major member of the Arabian Peninsula has been facing the harsh consequences of
a Civil War, waging since 2011. This war, has been the outcome of a power struggle between
an extremist group called the Houthis and the legitimate president Abdrubbah Mansur Al
Hadi.
The unstable political landscape has paved the way for other extremist groups, namely AQAP
and ISIL, to carry out illicit activities and claim territories in the North and West.
Many attempts have been made to reconcile the Government and the Houthis, however, none
of them have bore fruit or seemed to provide a permanent solution to the war that is slowly
turning into a major humanitarian issue, with outbreaks of cholera and famine along with bird
flu. Almost a million cases have been reported, making this the largest outbreak case in
history.

The underlying cause of aggravation of this issue is the cold war taking place between Saudi
Arabia and Iran, based primarily on contrasting religious beliefs and race for Islamic
superiority in the Middle East. Having deep historical roots, this proxy war is threatening the
stability and peace of not only the Middle East but the whole African Horn as well. Foreign
and military interventions by other nations have been strongly condemned by the
International Committee as an opportunity to fuel vested interests.

Suggested Solution
Bolivia, now placed in the driving seat as residing chair of the Security Council, strives to
restore peace in The Middle East, starting from Yemen by amicable diplomatic methods,
while drawing all stakeholders in this crisis to a negotiation. As a strong believer of
nationalization and a governance that ensures citizens wellbeing, Bolivia strongly condemns
the exploitation of the political landscape in Yemen by Saudi and Iran. We urge all member
states to have a unilateral approach towards solving the crisis, keeping aside vested interests.

Bolivia requests the Council to adopt a 12-point plan to solve the crisis:

- Requests Saudi Arabia to discontinue the naval embargo to facilitate supply of aid and
relief.
- Set up mobile health camps run by WHO and Red Cross to fight the Cholera outbreak
- Establish temporary refugee sites, protected by the UN Peacekeeping Force, at the Oman
and Eritrean Border.
- Broker a ceasefire between the Houthis and Al Hadi regime to cater to the nation
wide humanitarian catastrophe
- Urge the Houthis to reform into a political entity to constitute in free fair elections.
- Requests Iran to stop providing financial and military support to the Houthis till they decide
to reach an amicable negotiation.
- Hold a National Dialogue conference to reconsider resolution 2216
- Wipe out AQAP and ISIL, which pose a threat to security and stabilization in the region.
- Make Yemen a member of the GCC to boost economic reconstruction.
- Minimize military intervention and boost humanitarian relief activities.
- Capture and hold Saleh responsible for the current situation.
- Create an interim Government to facilitate fresh elections.

Bolivia hopes to set an example for the whole of Middle East and all nations going through a
similar uprising since the Arab Spring of 2011. Follow the framework laid down here and
discuss in committee long term solutions to not only solve the crisis at hand but the other
ongoing conflicts in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.

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COMMENTS: Content is marginally better, with some underlying issues examined.

However, the Position Paper is still ruined by shockingly poor sentence structure, many
unexplained and unclear terms, and a messy presentation of solutions.