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• Editorial

• Yellow page of yellow peo-

ple!

• Employment opportunities

with the U.N.

• Speakers in the Committees

highlights.

• Honoring Dr. Arghyrios Fa-

touros.

• UN news center headlines

• Opening ceremony: Do’s and

Don'ts .

• Dinner party

• Fun facts about the U.N.

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EDITORIAL:

Dear muners!

Greetings from the journalist team! I would

firstly like to pay tribute to our newspapers’

name . All the unique and uncommon events

of this 5day simulation will be covered by the

uncommun(=uncomMUN since we are a

model united nations!) news daily.

Now a few pointers from an “oldie” of muns.

1)Do not hesitate to take the floor. Everyone is

shy and everyone makes mistakes in their

speech! 2) Participate as much as possible.

Before you know it Thessis will be all over so

make the best of it! 3)Go to ALL social events

but also get some rest for your daily debates.

4)Have lots and lots of fun!

My team and myself will provide you all the

latest news and cover all the news with pho-

tos! The rest is up to you! We hope to reach

your expectations and as you bring your

thessis to the world we may bring the news to

you!!!

See you in the next issue of uncommun News!

Sophia xxx

Maria is 26 years old and a post-graduate student

in international and European Studies. Her future

aspiration is to become the world’s greatest sup-

porter of human rights and create her own associa-

tion for the rights of women.

Vasiliki is 27 years old and studies Political sci-

ences and history at the University of Panteion. Her

biggest dream would be to ….find a job with the

U.N. possibly?

Chatsik is 25 years and currently a mafia admini-

stration (a.k.a marketing and management) student.

His future aspiration is to conquer the world

through his pc!

Maro is almost 19 years old + 5 years. She is a

graduate of the department of International and

European studies of the U.O.M. and is obsessed with

cleaning! Her dream is to hitchhike all around the

world!

Dimitris is a 20years old and a real life student

of journalism! His dream is to be the next big

newsreader of the 9 o’clock news!

Filippia is 19 and a librarian student. She

hopes to work as a librarian in a library with…

very loud music and a lot of students running

around!

Athina is 24 and a Master’s Student of the AUTH

in Journalism and New-Media. She hopes to be

nominated as the first chief of propaganda amongst

the Mass Media in Greece!

Angeliki is 19 and a student of International and

European Studies. Her dream is to become the next

academy award winner !

Chrysoula is a 27 year old post graduate in Interna-

tional and European studies specialized in the issue

of minorities around the Black sea. Her wildest

dream is to become a leading personality in the field

of minority law and hopes to teach in the UOPiraeus.

Michalis is 22 and a law faculty under

graduate student . His future dream is to be

an advocate or a judge at the European Court

of Human Rights or …. something similar.

Khatsig

Dimitris

Filippia Maria Chrysoula Angeliki

Maro

Michalis

Vasiliki

Athina

MEET THE JOURNALISTS!

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The presentations by the speakers in each committee

were all well received and appreciated by the dele-

gates. The speakers focused on the agenda topics but

also gave important advice to the delegates. What

follows are some of the most important quotes of the

speakers :

1st Committee: Dr.Miltiadis Sarigiannidis: “enjoy

this game, enjoy the sessions, try to be productive

and be careful with your arguments”

2nd Committee: Dr.Stavros Katsios : “economic

crisis is closely related to economic crime”.

3rd Committee: Dr.Tonia Zervaki :“be decisive and

creative and propose solutions for the subject which

will be debated”.

ECOSOC: Dr.Emmanouela Doussi: “ECOSOC

lately plays a very important role for international

developments”

HRC: Dr.Yannis Ktistakis : “when we talk about the

right to water what first comes to mind is the envi-

ronmental problems which Greece faces such as the

river pollution of Acheloos and Aisopos ”

NAC: Mrs. Barbora Maronkova: “consensus is the

cornerstone of the NAC”, “Countries are selfish enti-

ties”

SC: Dr.Ilias Kouskouvelis: “Chapter VII is the teeth

of the Security Council”

COE: Mr. Guy-Michel Brandtner : “violence is a

serious problem nowadays and youth needs to fight

back”

Mr. Dimitrios Fatouros, information

officer for Greece and Cyprus UNPIC,

Brussels informed the delegates about

the employment opportunities within

the United Nations. He talked about his

personal experience, while advising the

students not to be hesitant to apply for a

job in the UN. He underlined that

Greeks do not need someone eminent to

help them. Mr. Fatouros also referred to

the volunteer job that students can do in

the UN in order to gain experience. A

question from the audience about the

salaries in the UN drew the attention of

all participants and the answer “In the

UN, we are unpaid” made everybody

laugh. Last, all delegates got very ex-

cited when Mr. Fatouros showed them

his UN passport.

Employment Opportunities with the United Nations

Short presentations by guest speakers.

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The opening ceremony was a memorable

affair! Professor Perraki first took the floor and

shared some very interesting facts with us. In

numbers during its first year ThessISMUN

counted just over 150 participants , while this

year they reached 400, 100 more than ThessIS-

MUN 2009. She also presented a brief flashback

of the honoured personalities of the previous

ThessISMUNs. Prof. Perraki finally suggested

that the ambassadors do not drink too much, in

order to perform their duties properly (something

that we journalists concur with!). Participants

were also welcomed by Dr.Kouskouvelis, the

Rector of UOM.

The floor was next given to Mr.Dimitrios

Fatouros , Information Officer for Greece and

Cyprus, who made clear that their is no family

relation between him and Dr. Arghyrios Fatouros,

this years honored personality of Thessis mun.

Nonetheless, this synonymy has helped him a lot

throughout his life as he mentioned. Moving on

to the awarding ceremony , as announced at last

years ThessISMUN the personality which

ThessISMUN 2010 is dedicated to is Dr. Arghy-

rios Fatouros . Dr. Christos Rozakis, Professor

and Vice-President introduced him and recalled

how they met him a long time ago when he was a

student. He expressed his deep appreciation to-

wards Dr. Fatouros and his wife and appreciated

the fact of this honoring.

Dr. Arghyrios Fatouros in his speech re-

ferred to the different stages that the United Na-

tions have gone through since their foundation in

the 1940s, as far as the Charter is concerned. He

briefly mentioned the recent history of the organi-

sation and the gaps in its operation in the pursuit

of its purposes. He then stated that the role of the

Secretary-General has been similarly affected by

the organisation' s different conditions.

"Coordinated common action of UN members is

still the exception rather than the rule", he said.

He concluded that "diplomats and politicians

need to show the imagination for devising meth-

ods and incentives for a more effective world or-

ganisation, which would assure peace while man-

aging to improve relations among states.”

Awarding ceremony of Dr. Arghyrios Fa-

Headlines from the UN news Center:

• Ban Ki-Moon welcomes U.S. reaffirmation of com-

mitment to nuclear-free world.

• Kyrgystan: Ban Ki-Moon calls for restraint and

dialogue.

• Ban Ki-Moon visits former nuclear test site in Ka-

zakhstan.

• S.C. is briefed on development fund for Iraq,

Guinea-Bissau.

• New Deputy Head of Afghanistan mission begins

work.

• DR Congo: U.N envoy condemns rebel attack on

Mbandaka.

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The opening ceremony had a lot to report…. There were so many

incidents that we had to make a list of the things we liked and

disliked during the opening ceremony. So here are the do’s and

don't’s :

LIKE:

• The opening speech of Miss Christina – Thekla Zacharia, the

Secretary General of the UN, which officially opened the

ThessISMUN 2010!(Yippee! ThessISMUN is here!)

• The presence of sooooooooo many Ambassadors of the Mem-

ber States in the General Assembly. (The ThessISMUN fam-

ily grows more and more every year!)

• The fact that many delegates had the courage to take the floor

and moved to rights of reply to the previous speeches. (There

is no reason to be shy guys!)

“NOT COOL”:

• Speak up and clearly please! (We really wanted to hear

your points but were unable to make a point of personal privi-

lege!!!!! )

• Using rights of reply as a mean of directly accusing coun-

tries of their policy. (Where has diplomatic courtesy gone?!)

• Rights of reply should stick to policy issues and not aim in

firing up the G.A

• Accusations of terrorism do not fight terrorism but fuel dif-

ferent kinds of conflict.

• General ambassadors speeches do not promote

understanding but misguide about your policy!

• Ambassadors should prefer to attract the audi-

ence’s attention with what they say and not by

what they wear!

• By repeating a word three times does not make

us believe in it. (even if you are encouraging soli-

darity!)

• The official language of this conference is

ENGLISH! So using words like “lakes” or

“taxiploo” are out of order even if they are used

….. in a game of hangman!

• We are very proud of our heritage but the

opening ceremony is no time to check the No 50

Bus itinerary which is the cultural line!

• Delegates should respect all speakers and not

leave before the end of the opening ceremony!

(after all we stayed there until the very last speech

so, so should you!)

DO’s and DON’T’S of the opening cere-

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Dinner

Party!!!

!!

Smiles all around….

Veryyyyyyyy hungry people! I think its

safe to say

that he is

not having

a good

time!