LAKE ERIE CONFERENCE XV

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

CONFERENCE BROCHURE

REGISTRATION DOCUMENTS

If you would like to register for our conference, please download and complete the Committee Assignment and Hotel Room Assignment Request Forms below. Once you have completed these forms, submit them to our Registrar at registration@leimun.com. If you have any questions about the registration process, please contact our Registrar.

Lake Erie XV Committee Assignment Request

Lake Erie XV Hotel Room Assignment Request

COMMITTEES - TOPICS - COUNTRIES

Below are the committees, topics, and countries that are being offered at Lake Erie XV.

Please note that there is an Open Agenda in the Security Councils. This Open Agenda means that these committees may discuss any topic that is within the purview of the Security Council, not merely the 7-8 topics that will be discussed in our Presidents' Letters. All other committees are limited to discussing the four topics assigned to them. Any and all committees are subject to the possibility of being given an emergency simulation.

Please be aware that the availability of countries is always in flux. Once Open Registration begins in September 2008, country availability can change on a daily basis as schools register, take additional assignments, or give back unneeded assignments. The Registrar also reserves the right to add countries to selected committees should all committees fill up well in advance of the conference. The addition of countries will only be done as a last resort if committees are full and in conjunction with the availability of committee space at the Crowne Plaza.

Lake Erie XV Assignment Availability (as of September 1)

Security Council (2)
Agenda: Open Agenda
Countries: Belgium, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, France, Indonesia, Italy, Libya, Panama, Russian Federation, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam

League of Arab States
Agenda: The Situation in Iraq; The Situation in Sudan; The Palestinian Question; Arab-African Cooperation
Countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen

Human Rights Council
Agenda: The Right to Food; Human Rights Violations and Implications of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories; Human Rights Situation in Myanmar; Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Forms of Intolerance
Countries: Amnesty International, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belgium, Cameroon, Canada, China, Cuba, Djibouti, France, Germany, Ghana, Human Rights Watch, Japan, Jordan, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Uruguay, and Zambia

Legal Committee
Agenda: Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts; Criminal Accountability of UN Officials and Experts on Missions; The Rule of Law at the National and International Levels; Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism
Countries: Afghanistan, Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, France, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe

Environmental Programme
Agenda: Climate Change and Development; Small Island Developing States; Marine Litter; Biological Diversity
Countries: Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Burundi, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, Germany, Haiti, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Pakistan, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russian Federation, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, United States, and Uruguay

Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe
Agenda: Military Reform; Political Rights of Roma and Sinti in the OSCE Area; Trafficking in Human Beings; Biorder Security and Management
Countries: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia & Montenegro, Spain, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and United States

Dual Crisis Africa
Agenda: The events surrounding the Fashoda Incident, a climactic territorial dispute between the United Kingdom and France that nearly brought these two nations to the brink of war and is considered by some to be the "Cuban Missile Crisis" of that time. The debate will officially begin on 10 July 1898. Debate in both committees will occur in "real time" at the same time. Decisions and actions of each committee will have a direct affect on the decisions and actions of the other. Historical events are subject to change.
United Kingdom Participants: Charles Thomason Ritchie, President of the Board of Trade; Charles Vernon Hume, Director of Military Intelligence; Duke of Devonshire (Spencer Compton Cavendish), Lord President of the Council; Earl of Balfour (Arthur James Balfour), First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons; George Joachim Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty; Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies; Lord Halsbury (Hardinge Stanley Giffard), Lord Chancellor; Lord Lansdowne (Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice), Secretary of State for War; Lord Salisbury (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil), Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Leader of the House of Lords; Sir Frederick Richards, First Naval Lord; Sir Michael Hicks, Chancellor of the Exchequer; and Viscount Wolseley (Garnet Joseph Wolseley), Commander in Chief of the Forces.
France Participants: Edouard Locroy, Minister of Marine; Emile Maruejouls, Minister of Commerce, Industry, Posts, and Telegraphs; Etienne Eugene, President of the Parliamentary Colonial Group; Eugene-Henri Brisson, President of the Council, Prime Minister, and Minister of the Interior; General Charles Sulpice Jules Chanoine, Minister of War; General Jean Roget, Chief of the General Staff; General Jules Brunet, Chief of Staff of the Army; Georges Trouillot, Minister of the Colonies; Paul Deroulede, Member of the Chamber of Deputies and Leader of the Ligue des Patriotes; Paul Peytral, Minister of Finance; Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, Member of the Chamber of Deputies; and Theophile Delcasse, Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Delegate A-Team (Limited to 10 Delegates)
Agenda: Delegates must be prepared to discuss any topic being discussed in any of the above committees within a period of 15-20 minutes.
Countries: Delegates must be prepared to represent any country, NGO, or other internationally recognized organization requested by any of the above committees within a period of 15-20 minutes.

FEES

Conference fees are as follows.

$50 School Registration Fee Due immediately upon registration

$75 Individual Delegate Fee Due on October 1, 2008

$105 Hotel Accommodations Due on October 1, 2008
(per quad room per night)

Fees may be paid via cash, school check, postal money order, or PayPal. Personal checks will not be accepted.

IMPORTANT DATES

May 1, 2008 Early Registration begins for schools with Model United Nations courses.

September 1, 2008 Open Registration begins for all schools.

October 1, 2008 All conference fees are due. Schools that have not paid their fees in full or made prior arrangements with the registrar may be deregistered - losing all of their committee and hotel room assignments.

October 10, 2008 Final hotel room assignments are due. No reimbursements for unused rooms will be given after this date.

October 20, 2008 Final delegate rosters are due. Reimbursements for unused assignments will not be given after this date.

October 30, 2008 Lake Erie Conference XV begins. No school may attend the conference without payment in full being received by this date.

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