Slovakia GA Policy Statement

Good evening Honorable Chair and our highly esteemed, fellow delegates. The Slovak Republic is honored to be in attendance this evening at the 2011 Model United Nations General Assembly.

The European Union has been in a state of economic decline for several years. Countries such as Portugal, Greece, and Spain have suffered from high unemployment rates, inflation, and in some areas, public outbursts have taken place in the form of violent riots. However, despite these conditions, many other nations have begun to gradually emerge from this world-wide recession, including Slovakia. Using our recent experiences in this new global economy, Slovakia hopes to aid less fortunate countries in their endeavors to regain stability. We hope to do this by acting as a model for countries coming out of recession, by helping increase their global trade, much like Slovakia did with it's economy.

In this current time, more and more countries are revolting against their previous regimes, such as Libya and Egypt. Slovakia believes it is imperative that there be set of international standards for allowing the new blossoming government to grow. Slovakia suggests a branch of the UN be created to assist the new nation's growth and development. This branch will do things such as helping give minor funds to the countries, as well as acting as an intermediate step between relations with other countries.

The UN currently does not have a blanket definition for private military firms, however, it does have one for mercenaries, the individuals that make up a private military firms, from the United Nations Mercenary Convention established in 1989. Slovakia believes it would be very simple to change the wording of the definition of mercenary defined in this convention, as mercenaries and private military firm are similar in the way that they function and operate.

Terrorism is becoming increasingly pertinent in many countries worldwide. Though Slovakia is not directly affected by the threat of terrorism, it understands that terrorism is a very serious threat to many countries, especially the newly developing countries from the revolutions, like the ones mentioned in the second topic. Even though this topic is of a great importance, the United Nations still doesn't have a proper definition for it. This will not do for a topic of such magnitude. Slovakia believes that this can be solved by looking at international incidents that are widely considered terrorist attacks, such as the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 in America. Also, examining other nations definitions for terrorism, and using these to make a compromise between all nations, Slovakia believes this topic could be resolved very easily.

We hope that it will be a fortuitous event for all present, and that it will be productive in solving the topics that have been brought to hand.