U of A HSMUN 2009 - Security Council

For a good backrounder on piracy in Somalia, as well as the position of several SC members on the issue, see the pdf. file from a former Model UN conference, pages 11-17. http://mun.horacemann.org/hommunc/bgs/HoMMUNC%20XXIV%20SC.pdf

The document file, also from a former Model UN conference, has a good background paper on the issue www.academymodelun.org/committees/tp/DISEC2.doc . It may be particularly usefull to look at the "Questions to Consider":
1. How can the UN work to facilitate cooperation between nations affected by piracy and those with the means to prevent piracy?
2. What methods besides that of UN aid can be used to limit the effects of sea piracy?
3. In what ways can international waters be made safer for trading vessels?
4. Who has the right to determine when and how ones country’s territorial waters should be open to another countries’ military forces?
5. Should crewmembers of cargo ships be entitled to carry firearms?
6. Under which countries’ laws should captured pirates be tried if they are caught in oceans that are not part of a country’s territorial waters?