The Hague International Model United Nations Conference 2025
In January a group of Royal Russell delegates attended the 57th International MUN Conference in The Hague. On Tuesday morning, around 3200 delegates coming from 200 schools from around the world gathered at the World Forum, in the heart of The Hague, the city of Peace and Justice, home of the International Court of Justice. Our Royal Russell pupils embraced the opportunity to get involved in intense lobbying, networking, resolution building and debating on topics such as the Measures for the transparency, accountability, and oversight of Artificial Intelligence Systems, Measures by the UN to better support Non-Governmental Organisations’ work, The situation in Haiti, The question of working conditions and standards of safety in factories, Promoting technological development of Artificial Intelligence as a facilitator of peace or Measures to give access to citizenship, education, and justice for women worldwide, amongst many other pressing issues. Uliana Tokolova, our Ambassador for the delegation of Mali, and Zoë Spellings delivered great opening speeches in the Disarmament and International Security Committee and the Human Rights Commission respectively whilst Oliver Bennett (Economic and Financial Committee), Kira Diakiv (Legal Committee) and Dominique Shved (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee) took every opportunity to make points of information and take the floor to make speeches during the debates. Johan Prinsloo, our former Secretary General at the October Royal Russell IMUN conference, led a successful debate as main submitter on his comprehensive resolution in the Special Political and Decolonization Committee. The conference concluded with an uplifting closing ceremony where Ambassadors proudly carried their delegation flag to the cheerful sound of drums and applause. Congratulations to our delegates in their successful participation at this prestigious event.
