The delegate from
South Africa seems unsatisfied with the way the discussions are following.
By Amanda Rodrigues, Agência SOI NEWS
New York - During yesterday afternoon, the United Nations Security Council divided its delegates into groups to discuss separately different topics regarding worldwide terrorism. This was a very unusual way of work and brought up many discussions and disagreements. Seen that it was impossible to all the nations being represented in all the small groups that were formed, when the decisions made by the groups were presented the delegates who weren’t involved on the making of those did not agree with them and the temperature of the room raised a little bit once more.
Although
today morning the delegates seemed to be more superficial on the discussions
and tried not to get on details and real actions, some delegates got tired of
waiting for nothing and raised their voices wishing for a more productive round
of discussions. “The group discussions were productive, but now we need to
concentrate and work on a strategy! Let’s wake up, raise our plaques and get
involved on the discussion!”, said the delegate from Pakistan, Wagner Arthur.
After this
“wake up call” from Pakistan, some points finally started to be focused more
deeply. The first one was to find a definition for what exactly the committee
would consider as a terrorist attack. The United State delegate, Jáder
Figueiredo, made a very strong and somewhat funny statement about it: “We
shouldn’t care for who they [the terrorists] are or from where they are from.
It shouldn’t matter if they are civilians, known criminals or Power Rangers, if
they are attacking civilians or governments violently, it should be considered
a terrorist attack!”
Even though
most of the delegates were happy to discuss about the definition of terrorism,
some nations were trying to finish this subject and change to another one that
would involve more action and less talk from the council. “We have had enough
of definitions on this council; we should start to discuss more about the
actions that we are going to take upon what is happening! We should discuss
about who is arming and supplying these terrorists!” said the delegate from
South Africa, Luiz Felipe.
The
delegate of Pakistan ensured to everyone that he wouldn’t leave the room
without finishing discussing every single point that they need to discuss to
finally put on a working paper and handle it to the chair, but he was seen
leaving the room many times that morning in the middle of the discussions.
In general
you would think that all the delegates are really serious and well concentrated
in the debates, but let’s remember that they are human beings and, just like
us, they can also show some love. In the middle of the discussions, the
delegate from United States asked for a Point of Personal Privilege just to
wonder about who he should give a heart note. Is there a chance that one of the
most enthusiastic delegates from the council is losing his concentration
because he is in love? He seemed so out of the room that he didn’t even
realized that the members of the chair recognized him to talk at one point.
The
Pakistan delegate didn’t like at all the interruption and raised his voice
demanding all delegates to be more concentrated on the situation and focus on
finding solutions to the points that were being debated. The ironic fact is that
the same delegate was seen having small talks in a very particular way with Juliana
Carvalho, the delegate from Germany, and at some point of the section both of
them were seen leaving the room at the same time.
The time
was passing rapidly and the council was still discussing about the definitions
of what a terrorist attack is and who should be considered a terrorist. In a
private interview, the delegate from South Africa showed his reasons to why
they should be passing on this point and discussing about who is financing
terrorist groups: “Most of the countries that are avoiding to talk about the
actions we should make against terrorism are Pakistan and United States because
they are related to terrorism actions and they want to let their names as clear
as possible. Other nations like Russia are also known as a great supplier to
terrorist groups so that’s why we need to talk about it and set new rules to
control all this.”
