Topic: Determining the Legitimacy of Secession Movements and Obligations of Parent States
Country: Iraq
Delegate Name: Katelyn Brusach
School: Mattawan High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Iraq position papers GLIMUN 2016 committees
Especially in recent history, the importance of discussing this topic becomes more and more vital to the prosperity of our globe. Opinions are becoming more drastic, with today’s technology people are able to move to places where their beliefs are supported by a majority (whereas they may be a minority in their original location), and people are becoming more ultimate in their beliefs. As more nations polarize, their desire to split from their parent nation become stronger. We see more and more cases of this every year. Recognizing this, the issue is not that they are attempting to succeed, rather, when are nations legitimate cases of succession and when are they simply rioting minorities?
Keeping that in mind, it will also be important to establish recommendations of parenting nations, as well as encouraging them to fulfill any obligations they have to their succeeding nations. With a history of super power country involvement, Iraq is open to discussing obligatory involvement after a nation has succeeded.
Iraq’s primary concern, however, is establishing a way of identifying the legitimacy of a succeeding nation. The Kurdish Republic of Iraq, Kurdistan, could arguably be classified as a succeeding nation. Therefore, this topic is highly relevant to Iraq. This topic becomes personal to Iraq in the way that it could impact Iraq very directly. Iraq will be keeping this in mind while discussing the potential obligations it may have to fulfill, as well as realizing and recognizing the possibility of Kurdistan being classified (through the eyes of the United Nations) as a succeeding nation.
