​Security Council divides because of the toxic weapons

The first day of the SYMUN debate in the Security Council revolves largely around the prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of biotoxic and toxic weapons.

Aafter an initial debate on whether or not to include nuclear weapons in the debate, which ended dramatically with the veto of three P-5 countries, discussions began on the possible solutions that could be taken for the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Initially, all countries seemed to be united in a large bloc around the idea of heavy economic sanctions for countries possessing and using such weapons.

But after several caucuses, parliamentary differences emerged on issues related to the use of toxic weapons in science and medicine. Most Western countries were in favor of their use in these terms but Iran was appalled at the idea of using these weapons as medicine.

And so the committee was divided, as the issue of production and storage of chemical weapons also came up and the differences between countries like China and the US were highly noticeable. The first bloc is formed by UK, USA, Australia, Japan, Singapore and Germany and they based their resolution on the creation of ICADE, an association for the regulation of toxic weapons and the non-use of these weapons by countries close to terrorism. The second bloc, formed by the Russian Federation, China, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, India and Ethiopia, supported more confidentiality and less control since toxic weapons serve to protect their countries.

By the end of the session the two resolutions were almost done so we would have a very interesting morning debate tomorrow.