Topic: Countering the Threat Posed by Improvised Explosive Devices
Country: Iraq
Delegate Name: Joshua Lancaster
School: Grand Rapids City High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Iraq position papers GLIMUN 2017 committees
Iraq is greatly opposed to IEDs and believes that they need to be handled with utmost care and caution.
The problem is that non-state groups get their hands on these ‘homemade’ bombs and can plant them like landmines, making it incredibly hard to clean and find creating a danger for everyone. These bombs kill civilians and combatant meaning they are a problem for everyone. No one is really safe from these because they are hard to spot and disarm.
Iraq agrees with many countries that money should be spent on finding and disarming these terrible bombs. Be it by increasing military search parties, or funding AIEDs to help neutralize the bombs.
Iraq hopes that in this conference the UN can allocate money to searching for and disarming these IEDs by using the aforementioned ideas
