Topic: 2026 – Verification of Disarmament
Country: Somalia
Delegate Name: Eleanor Margolis
Somalia finds that verifying that a country has disarmed is important for the safety of countries across the globe.
Verifying that countries are controlling and reducing their inventory of dangerous weapons is very important. Some countries, including Somalia, have bilateral agreements on this topic, but when tensions are thick, these agreements are easily revoked, which is obviously a problem. The UN is already working with many other independent organizations, but the concern of bringing in outside organizations to check if countries are disarming is large, based on the trust that is easily broken.
Somalia signed onto a bilateral agreement on this topic called CTBT. Somalia has also worked with the UN to create a Joint Verification Team. This team checks weapons and ammunition stockpiles and compares them to records. These checks help to create Somalia safer. Somalia finds that this topic is important, for Somalia believes in the establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of nuclear weapons and other mass destruction weapons.
Somalia wants to work together with the other delegates to come up with an agreeable solution where countries are safe from the danger of weapons of mass destruction by making sure that the number of dangerous weapons is reduced and ultimately eliminated. A suggestible idea for this could be for a binding agreement between countries where each country agrees to disclose the existence of weapons and disarm themselves no matter what is going on between the countries. Peace can be created through collective action that reduces the number of dangerous weapons.
