Topic: Dealing with Civil and Political Unrest
Country: Morocco
Delegate Name: Chloe Jacobs
School: Forest Hills Northern High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Morocco position papers GLIMUN 2014 committees
Morocco believes that the intervention with armed measures would not help to decrease the political and civil unrest in the regions. In fact, Morocco believes that armed intervention would only escalate the political and civil unrest. The current crises in the interested states makes peacekeeping measures risky and dangerous. In fact, the recent acts of ISIS leads Morocco to oppose all peacekeeping efforts for the protection of those participants and to limit the ability of the groups from promoting their barbaric tactics.
Morocco would support independent and neutral negotiations between the groups and the regions. Morocco recognized that this will be a difficult process but must be attempted for the sake of the affected states and citizens. Morocco recommends limiting the issues of negotiation to focus the states on a limited goal and thereby seeking to prevent countries from bringing in other issues which would cloud and halt negotiations.
Morocco believes the threshold for international involvement has been met by the escalation of civil and political unrest in the various states. Rather than only one issue at the center of the unrest, more and more issues surface, along with more and more rebel groups. This all increases the violence, unrest, and fear among citizens.
Morocco encourages the UN to first impose financial sanctions on the states which refuse to participate in negotiations. If the financial sanctions do not render participation, the UN may consider utilizing the states and regions who will participate to impose “neighborhood” pressure as a united group against the rogue few.
As a monarchy, Morocco has seen political and civil unrest over the past 40 years, including the development of dozens of political parties which have formed to further their individual causes. Morocco has a strong commitment to all the parties to form and be heard which keeps lines of communication and negotiation open.
Morocco recognizes the difficulty in recognizing true political and civil issues with those that seek only to further the issues of small interest groups. Morocco believes the commitment to hear all the issues an address them individually will help to filter the legitimate issues from those that are not. Also, the true commitment and participation from those interested in establishing a peaceful region will help flush out real issues.
