I’ve been to 40+ conferences, 8 of which as a chair and I must say this. STOP. SENDING. FIRST. TIMERS. TO. PRESTIGIOUS. CONFERENCES!!! Especially to the SC

I was at one of the more prestigious conferences in Turkey the other day, as the delegation of Thailand in the SC, and I swear to god that China, Iraq and France were all first timers. Being relatively experienced, I naturally tried to write very comprehensive clauses not especially vetoable, however, 2 of the P5 members being first timers, they vetoed it on no valid grounds. Whats worse than that is that the chairs sustained it. I somehow managed to get the entire council on my side, and essentially had the combined veto power of Russia, US and the UK, but it was still left a very sour taste in my mouth as a conference.

Further than that, despite objections by literally the entire committee, the President Chair refused to do ANY superlatives to not offend anyone (even though we had another 50 minutes till the session would end, it was the last session)