Topic: Improving Accountability at the United Nations
Country: Kazakhstan
Delegate Name: Arthur Woodworth
School: Kalamazoo Central High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Kazakhstan position papers GLIMUN 2014 committees
Kazakhstan has taken every measure to ensure it is in full compliance with international law, including twenty offices of UN programs, of which nine are in Almaty, which is planned to become a regional center of diplomacy. As such, Kazakhstan believes other countries should respect international law to their full ability.
Kazakhstan believes that peacekeeping operations should be carried out in full compliance with international law, and therefore that peacekeepers in violation of international law should be punished by an international court. Laws vary between the countries represented in the United Nations, but the Peacekeepers the various countries send represent the United Nations as a whole.
The question is often discussed as to when the United Nations should become involved in conflicts. Since the United Nations is an organization meant to promote peaceful resolution of conflict, and since the United Nations is the sole executor of international law, Kazakhstan believes that the United Nations should become involved in any conflict between member nations wherein war crimes are being committed, as defined by the Geneva Conventions. The United Nations should then send a coalition force of peacekeepers from many countries to contain the situation while ensuring peaceful negotiation occurs. Other countries wishing to enter the conflict must be prevented from entering, to ensure that peaceful resolution does not expand further than was already present, thereby causing negotiations to become unnecessarily complex and inevitably including nations without direct connection to the region.
The current measures for procurement transparency should be reconsidered, and the existing measures should be more strongly enforced.
