Topic: Ukraine
Country: Myanmar
Delegate Name: A.J. Macon
School: Forest Hills Central High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Myanmar position papers GLIMUN 2018 committees
The tensions between Russia and Ukraine are currently at a peak of intensity. The violence between the nations has escalated to a point of international distress. The last thing that is needed is an unnecessary civil war, when most countries view Ukraine as being independent, while the country at hand is debating itself. The Eastern part of Ukraine is pro-Russian — fairly as the people are ethnically and culturally Russian — the current government is anti-annex. Parts of the UN are split, as countries geographically close to Russia disagree with their idea of annexing Ukraine, after the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Some allies of Russia, on the other hand, agree with their movements, and even some promises to annex Ukraine.
Myanmar believes that the Autonomous Republic of Crimea should be under Russian governmental control. A majority of Eastern Ukraine agrees, this is caused by the majority of Ukraine to be culturally, and ethnically Russian. Currently in Ukraine Myanmar only has an Honorary Consulate Embassy, and our relations are almost non-existent. We have a stronger diplomatic relationship with Russia and have been supporting Myanmar since the Soviet Union. Plus they have more cause to annex at least part of Eastern Ukraine.
The Republic of the Union of Myanmar is willing to work with any other country to find some kind of resolutions to the issues between Russia and Ukraine, preferably ones that don't endanger the citizens of either country. One proposal could be the idea of annexing part of eastern Ukraine, decided by a vote from its citizens. Most of this area is pro-Russian, and if the people want this they would call and vote for it. Myanmar as a country would try our best to try and convince Russia to at least open up to some type of solution proposal. We have along with a sum of other countries allied with Russia hopefully will have some type of influence to end all of this in a peaceful and non-threatening way. The Republic of the Union of Myanmar is looking forward to coming together with other delegates and resolve this issue as best we can.
