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Sunday 21 February 2010

SOCHUM - Sunday

Chaos in the final quarter of an hour at SOCHUM. After the voting down of a third resolution , on torture (having already passed two on humanitarian co-ordination) with ten minutes to go, a final resolution was introduced, with five minutes to introduce and debate it, condemning all torture globally. Earlier in the day, in introductory discussions, Jordan advocated the legalization of torture in the presence of a UN representative, whilst Iran called for the abolishment of all current human rights treaties in favour of creating a new one. Finland, in his earlier definition of torture, made reference to David Hasselhoff, Westlife and high heels - perhaps it is best left to the reader to imagine how these three parties related to one another in the speech.

After being one of the first committees to pass a resolution on Saturday evening, a number of delegates expressed their discontent at it being passed without a single amendment, and characterized it as toothless and non-specific. This of course had ramifications for how the other draft resolutions were treated, with that passed on Sunday morning being heavily amended, and those in the afternoon, including the late introductions, dismissed relatively peremptorily.

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