WGA/8/8
Sponsored by Dawson Parker, Jonny Zhang, Gavin Dorris, Cooper Penticost of Innovation Academy
The delegates above represented the Delegation of Ukraine.
This legislation was filed in the Social, Humanitarian and Cultural category
Presented as part of the MUN B 2023 conference
1 | Deeply concerned by brutal executions in 16 different towns and settlements and an estimated |
2 | 500,000 casualties overall due to Russia’s invasion; |
3 | |
4 | Emphasizing that an estimated 35 percent of the 500,000 casualties are children; |
5 | |
6 | Disturbed that cities such as Mariupol, Kyiv, Bakhmut, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, etc. have been |
7 | significantly damaged by Russia; |
8 | |
9 | Alarmed by allegations of sexual violence against citizens of Ukraine, including children; |
10 | |
11 | Acknowledging that Russians are intentionally targeting civilians; |
12 | |
13 | Understanding that an estimated 7.7 million Ukrainians have been displaced since the invasion; |
14 | |
15 | Stressing that Russia has committed multiple war crimes such as torture, summary executions, |
16 | and enforced disappearances; |
17 | |
18 | Underlining that the cost right now to repair Ukraine is around 349 billion and 134 billion of that is |
19 | just infrastructure damage; |
20 | |
21 | Keeping in mind that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, “No one shall be subjected |
22 | to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;” |
23 | |
24 | Conscious that in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter it declares, “In order to ensure prompt and |
25 | effective action by the United Nations, its members confer on the Security Council primary |
26 | responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security agree that in carrying out its |
27 | duties under this responsibility the Security Council acts on their behalf;” |
28 | |
29 | Welcoming IAEA, UNICEF, UNESCO, OCHA, UNFPA, UN World Food Program, and the World Health |
30 | Organization efforts of already sending supplies to support Ukraine in this war; |
31 | |
32 | Expressing its appreciation that neighboring countries of Ukraine and the U.S. have committed 150 |
33 | billion dollars in total; |
34 | |
35 | We the Delegation of Ukraine do hereby: |
36 | Call upon IAEA, UNICEF, UNESCO, OCHA, UN World Food Program, and the World Health |
37 | Organization to provide Ukraine with the funding and supplies to restore our broken country. |
38 | |
39 | Request a twenty-year plan providing 35,000,000 USD each year (1 percent of the UN’s $3.4 |
40 | billion yearly budget) to assist in the revitalizing and rebuilding of Ukraine by supplying further |
41 | humanitarian aid including medical supplies, food assistance, water, and clothing to the worst |
42 | affected areas of the country. We ask for the construction supplies and workforce to begin the |
43 | rebuilding of our devastated infrastructure. |
44 | |
45 | Strongly advises prioritizing the most devastated cities including Mariupol, Odesa, Kyiv, Bakhmut, |
46 | Kharkiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, by beginning with restoring housing, hospitals, schools, and public |
47 | buildings. |
48 | |
49 | Encourage beginning of the distribution of humanitarian aid with the eastern side of the country |
50 | and areas such as Kyiv and the Black Sea port cities of Odesa and Mariupol, which will take |
51 | additional peacekeeper support and guarded transport. |
52 | |
53 |