TECO MUN Lesson 1.

4 Key Information:
The Opening Speech & Intro to Resolutions
What’s an Opening Speech?
• An opening speech is a 60 second speech for the delegates before writing a resolution
• Like any ice-breaker, you are surrounded with people you have never met before, all with the
common goal to work with different delegates to solve a common issue
• This is a great chance to introduce yourselves to the room full of delegates.
• Opening speeches put you on the radar for potential collaborators for the resolutions, which
becomes pretty important.
• This will also be a great chance for you to see the kinds of delegates you may be dealing with.
• If you notice a delegate shares a similar stance with you on a specific issue and has a resolution
on the same issue as yours, it would be a great way to work together to craft a better resolution.
• Remember, the goal of the committee sessions is to debate on and eventually pass resolutions.

Basic Organization of an Opening Speech

1. Always start your opening speech with opening below ↓
✓ “Honorable chairs and fellow delegates, the delegate of [insert your country] wishes to
debate on the topic/agenda of…. [insert your issue of choice]
✓ *Key Tip* Whenever you are giving a speech or presenting an argument, always start with,
“Honorable chairs and fellow delegates”

2. Talk about the agenda. What is the situation? How has it developed? Why should it be debated?
✓ Introduce the agenda, a simple 1 sentence explanation of what the issue is and what are
the parts involved in it. Make sure to identify those that are directly impacted.
✓ Tell the delegates of how the issue has developed over time. Any notable change that the
committee should really know about? Also 1~2 sentences
✓ Give the delegates a picture of where the issue is at the current moment. What does the
issue look like at this moment?
✓ The BIG QUESTION: Why should the committee care about this issue? → Must be answered

3. Present you and your country’s position on the issue

✓ How does your country view the issue and which aspect of the issue has your country
focused on in the past?
✓ What kind of solution are you, as a delegate, propose? A one sentence description of the
kind of solutions.

4. Wrap it all up in a bow

✓ Normally ending an opening speech is through a message of how hopeful you, as a
delegate, are of the debate and how you are excited to start debating.
✓ No need to make a complicated ending.
Introducing Resolutions
• A resolution is a detailed collaborative action plan of a potential solution to a given global
issue, using the current means and methods available to the committee.
• It is written by a team of delegates, or commonly known as a 'bloc'.
• A bloc is formed, most of the times, with delegates who are interested in the same topic and
share similar approaches to the topic.
• There will be a main submitter who is essentially the face of the resolution, and co-submitters
who are your colleagues who helped write the piece together.
• You will want to specify this in the header
• All resolution MUST follow the header style as shown below ↓

THE QUESTION OF: ______________________________________________

MAIN SUBMITTED BY: ___________________________________________
CO-SUBMITTED BY: ______________________________________________
SIGNATORIES: ___________________________________________________

Resolutions: Preambulatory Clauses

• A resolution has two parts to it. The first, are the preambulatory clauses.
• The goal of the preambulatory clauses is to present the issue to all the delegates reading the
resolution and the goal/mindset the resolution hopes to achieve
• 5 to 6 sentences that are essentially like an introductory paragraph in an essay
• They provide some context to the issue, highlights a sense of the kind of solutions the resolution
intends to introduce, and what it eventually hopes to achieve.
• It encourages delegates to share the mindset that the submitters had in crafting the resolution
• It sets a certain vibe, a mood of how your bloc approached the issue and what you want to see
out of it

Resolutions: Operative Clauses

• These are the actual plans and details of how you will solve the problems mentioned in the
preambulatory clauses
• They call on members of the committee to implement specific action
• A full length resolution would have around 10 ~ 12 operative clauses.
• And they can be distinctively divided into three sections.
o Operative Clause 1: What is the approach you would take to tackle the problem?
o Operative Clause 2: How do you plan to make it a reality and feasible?
o Operative Clause 3: How should that plan be implemented when it goes into action?

Preambulatory and Operative Clause Action Words:

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