SC+2009+Issue+2

//Student officer: Dana Lin// __Westlake 2009 SC Topic 2: **Question of Territoriality of the North Pole**__

 __**Resolution**__ Hello everyone, since the Chair has approved my request to do so, I am posting a resolution on this wiki based on this issue, which other fellow delegates may use as a base. Do email me at charles1995@hotmail.com if you are interested in merging with my resolution, or simply just to comment and/or suggest ways that I can improve on it. Maybe your country is affected by one of the clauses for example. Send me an email regarding yoru thoughts and opinions on this resolution and I will be happy to change it or take your points into account.

Kind Regards, Charles Goh - Delegate of Austria 1

__**Resolution(2)**__ Greetings everyone, this is the delegate of Libya. Chair also granted this delegate the access to post the delegate's resolution on this page. Please feel free to take a look at me, and if you have any suggestions or questions, also feel free to write them down at the discussion page, under the name of "Resolution" by kylepx2014. (resolution by delegate of Libya, please excuse the file's name)

Greetings delegates, upon permission of the chair, I have attached my draft resolution on this topic. I have seen some different discussions on the question of plagarism, however I am taking the freedom to borrow several of Austria's preambulatory clauses. I would like to be able to merge with others and hopefully come up with one on which we can all agree! Thanks!
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CJ Pine, Delegate of Vietnam - cjkaile@gmail.com



Under the international law, // no country // currently owns the North Pole or the region of the Arctic Ocean surrounding it.

Countries are now seeking to exploit the rich resources that the Arctic may be having. Many current researchers believe that the Arctic contains up to 500bn barrels of oil, huge gas reserves and significant deposits of diamonds, nickel, tin and gold,

According to a recently published article from // Russia Beyond the Headlines //, all states bordering the Arctic claim rights to its continental shelf. These include the United States of American, Canada, Russia, Denmark (Greenland) and Norway. Other polar states, such as Iceland and Sweden, have no marine borders with the Arctic, yet could also make claims. In addition, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, India and China are also increasingly interested in the Arctic reserves. In the year 2007, Russia claimed the pole for itself by using a tiny submarine to plant a Russian flag on the ocean floor.

“Who owns the North Pole? Canada begins Arctic flights to find out” 16 March 2009 < [] > "Territorial claims in the Arctic" < []>
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