Seth Anandram Jaipuria

Model United Nations

2023
 POSITION PAPER GUIDELINES
Note: *Delegates, note that all Position Papers and queries before the committee that is to be presented
to the Executive Board must be mailed at unodcsajmun2023@gmail.com
Any Paperwork such as Drafts, Substantive Chits, Reports, Resolution or Source of Information asked by the
Executive Board (if and only if it is present in soft copies) is to be emailed to the same, though the
Executive Board promotes any paperwork to be handed over
in hard copy during the committee session.

What is a position paper?

A position paper is a document describing your country’s position, and possible solutions on a given
agenda. It is important to write a position paper because it will help you gain insight on the issue and
prepare you for the conference. Writing a good position paper not only requires research skills, but also
involves the ability to critically analyse the information you gather through your research.

A position paper should include four sections, outlined below:

A. Background of the Topic

1. i) What are the main elements of the problem?

2. ii) What are the causes of those elements?

B. Position taken by your country

i) What are your national interests in the situation?

ii) What are your nation’s policies on the topic?

C. Proposed Solutions

What does your nation believe needs to be done to solve the problem?

D. Conclusion

Your position paper should be single spaced, font: Times New Roman, size 12 and should not exceed two
pages. The top of the position paper should have your country/portfolio name, committee and agenda. It
should either be in Microsoft word or PDF format.

The last day to submit your position paper is the 20th May, 2022 (Saturday, 12:00 a.m.)

Please find a sample position paper below.

Seth Anandram Jaipuria Model United Nations 2023

 Sample Position Paper
Committee: UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Agenda: Deliberating upon the growing concerns of Transnational Organized Crime in the light of the
Covid-19 pandemic.

Portfolio: The United States of America

Delegate: -----

School: -----

Introduction: Transnational Organized Crimes are among the most prominent perturb to the United
Nations and every state operating for endurance, security and stability. It is not only a worldwide issue, but
countries agonizing over internally based crises are suffering a lot. These organizations are a principal
threat to countries with obligatory peace arrangements. Transnational Criminal channels are not only
extending their operations, but they are also diversifying their activities, resulting in a convergence of
transnational threats that have evolved to grow more intricate, volatile, and destabilizing. These networks
also imperil global interests by forging alliances with corrupt and nefarious elements of national
governments and using the authority and influence of those elements to further their criminal activities. In
some cases, national governments exploit these relationships to advance their interests to the detriment of
the country as a result of or in order to steer clear of the effects of armed dissension, situations of
generalized violence, infringement of human rights or human- made instability in the world even, in the
pandemic.

Transnational Crime In The Western Hemisphere: Transnational Organized Crime channels,

including transnational gangs, have expanded and culminated, menacing the security of citizens
and the endurance of governments throughout the region, with direct security implications for the
world and specifically the United States. Central America is a critical area of converging threats,
where verboten trafficking in drugs, migrants and weapons, along with other revenue streams, fuel
increased precariousness. Transnational crime and its accompanying violence are threatening the
prosperity of some Central American states and can cost up to eight per cent of their gross
domestic product, according to the World Bank. The Government of Mexico is waging a historic
campaign against transnational criminal organizations, many of which are extending beyond drug
trafficking into human smuggling and trafficking, weapons smuggling, bulk cash smuggling,
coercion, extortion and abduction for ransom. Transnational Organized Crime in Mexico makes
the U.S. border more vulnerable because it generates and sustains felonious and illicit corridors
for border crossings that can draw on by other auxiliary perpetrators or terrorist doers or
organizations. Farther south, Colombia has accomplished exceptional achievement in reducing
cocaine production and countering illicit armed groups, such as the FARC, that engage in
Transnational Organized Crime. Yet, with the deterioration of these organizations, new groups
are emerging as criminal groups perceived in Spanish as Bandas Criminales or Bacrims.
The position of United States in management of Transnational Crimes: Transnational
Organized Crime menaces U.S. economic interests and can prompt notable damage to the world
financial system through its subversion, exploitation, and distortion of legitimate markets and
economic ventures. U.S. business leaders worry that U.S. firms are being put at a competitive
deprivation by Transnational Organized Crime and corruption, expressly in surfacing markets
where numerous perceive that rule of law is less reliable. The World Bank estimates $1 trillion is
spent each year to bribe public executives, inducing an array of economic distortions and
suffering to legitimate economic ventures. The price of doing business in countries afflicted by
Transnational Organized Crime is also surging as corporations’ budget for supplementary security
costs, sceptically impacting foreign direct investment in many sections of the world. Transnational
Organized Crime activities can lead to the agitation of the global supply chain, which in turn
abbreviates economic competitiveness and strikes the ability of U.S. industry and transportation
divisions to be resilient in the light of such disruption. Further, transnational criminal organizations,
leveraging their relationships with state-owned entities, industries, or state-allied actors, could
augment influence over vital commodities markets such as gas, oil, aluminium, and precious
metals, along with potential exploitation of the transportation sector.

Solutions: The concerns of Transnational Organized Crime are arduously been perceived ahead
as a crucial threat to the peace and stability of the world. The prevalent solutions which could be
taken into action are a lot, but the scrutiny of the Security Council is a must as these conflictive
stratagems could solely be deciphered by it. It should exert armed forces to assist the nations in
their war against these atrocities. Aiding nations economically, societally and military wise will
help it to stop. For naturally based stability and conflicts, there is a great necessity for the
invigorations of humanitarian laws and the most importantly, humanity and tolerance.

Some overarching policy objectives that are consistent with the conception and priorities of the National
Security Strategy of the United States have taken:

1. Protect Americans and our allies from the abuse, violence, and exploitation of transnational criminal
networks by manoeuvre.
2. Assist ally countries to bolster governance and lucidity, break the corruptive influence of transnational
criminal networks, and sever state-crime alliances.
3. Break the economic potential of transnational criminal networks and defend crucial markets and the
U.S. monetary system from Transnational Organized Crime penetration and abuse.
4. Constitute international consensus, multilateral coalition, and public-private partnerships to thwart
transnational organized crime.
5. Operate with global allies to diminish the global supply of and demand for illicit drugs and revoke
funding to Transnational Organized Crime channels.
6. Split the nexus between the international illicit drug and arms trades, primarily in decisive regions that
are at hazard of being destabilized by these interconnected menaces.
7. Sustain obligation to meddle Consolidated Priority Organization Targets, as they generally have a
particularly corrupting influence or render assistance to terrorism.
8. Maximize the effectiveness of the Kingpin Act to endure transnational drug organizations.
9. Generate a comprehensive stratagem to dismantle DTOs with links to terrorist organizations.
10. Serve with international allies to seal down arising drug transit routes and associated corruption in
West Africa.
11. Coordinate with global allies to intercept synthetic drug production, trafficking, and precursor chemical
diversion.

Conclusion: Though the affected countries are been prioritized to these atrocities, the host
countries are the real victim, which are agonizing a lot with the violence and lives cost by
Transnational Organized Crimes taking birth in these areas. The solutions are a lot relative for
recovering from the sufferings of the people who are sufferer of it.