Topic: Promoting Peaceful Post-Election Transitions
Country: Vietnam
Delegate Name: Young Joon Kim
School: Cranbrook Kingswood
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Vietnam position papers GLIMUN 2008 committees
Nowadays, most people of the global society elect their officers of their country by themselves. However, occasionally, there are riots by citizens or violent oppressions by governments either to remove corrupted politics out of their country or to save their power over their people. Often times, these brutal clashes of forces lay great concerns on our global community as Kenya and Zimbabwe’s crisis have demonstrated us. Therefore, UN’s role of interfering in these issues is crucial.
In our country, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, there have scarcely been rebels against the dominant government or inhumane suppression to innocent people of our nation. The main reason how we can keep the peace in our election and political system is because those who are elected have accomplished a tremendous development economically, thus are accredited by people. We, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam achieved around 8% annual GDP growth from 1990 to 1997 and continued at around 7% from 2000 to 2005, making it the world's second-fastest growing economy. Since the elected have proved people their potential, all obeisance under our government was possible.
Exemplified by our government, we view that most of the post-election violence depends on the ability of the current authority to elevate its nation’s status and wealth in the global community. If a country is struggling with the conflicts between the elected and the voters, the elected should prove themselves as competent officers. Therefore, UN should give a chance for a dominant government of a nation to work for their people, and specific methods of carrying it out will be decided further in the conference.
