Topic: Ukraine
Country: Singapore
Delegate Name: Bella Bouma
School: Forest Hills Northern High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Singapore position papers GLIMUN 2018 committees
There has been an ongoing battle over the Status of Ukraine. Russians want to have Ukraine and crimea become a part of the Russian Federation. The east side of Ukraine is in for this, but the west side will not budge. This has caused many civil wars and many deaths that we need to prevent. Russia is in support of the East because many of the Ukrainians in the east are Russian speaking and have the ethnic Russian culture. Russia has already annexed Crimea and they failed to take over Ukraine, so this battle still continues.
Singapore stands with Ukraine. Singapore recognizes Ukraine as a country and believes that all countries big or small must observe international law. Singapore has always stood up against invasions of small countries, like the stand with East Timor, Cambodia. Singapore is now taking a stand against the invasions of Ukraine.
Russia has signed agreements in 1944 with the US and UK agreeing that they will not use force or threaten the territory and independence of Ukraine. As we can see, Russia has not held up there end of the deal. We recognize that a treaty or signed agreement is not going to be successful unless Ukraine has aid from other countries and defend themselves. Even though Ukraine has many embassies around the world and including one in Singapore, these countries cannot stand against a massive country like Russia. The fact is that, the size of the country gives them power. As a small state Singapore recognizes the facts and knows that it is important to have a strong foreign policy because “agreements” are not going to end this ongoing civil war.
