Writing a good essay is the key for being selected to any committee and especially to ours. The work represents a short analysis of the Report of the Expert and all the documentation mentioned in it which you are to examine in order not only to send an application but also to pass an interview. There are some criteria to write a good essay that will be accepted by the Expert:

Structure

• Your work should count 300 (+/- 10) words on the average. 
• Your work should be divided into 3 parts: the introduction (describes the agenda in general), the main body (show your knowledge of the Expert Report) and the conclusion (summarize your own ideas). 
• Your work should be written in an official style and be informative.

Content

• Your essay should represent your own opinion on the issue, not the position of a particular country.
• You should carefully examine the Report of the Expert in order to write the essay in accordance with the agenda.
• You ought to cover the following aspects: current situation, measures taken under the auspices of the UN and others, the documents mentioned in the Report of the Expert, your own ideas to resolve the problem. 
• You should back up your opinion with the facts and address only to the official sources.
• Try to explain and to give examples to every one of your outlined ideas.
• Reference must be made to the documents used in the course of the work.

Avoid plagiarism!

Honorable delegates,

After writing an essay accepted by the Expert, and passing an interview, you will be distributed a country or an organization from the list of observers for its presentation at the Churkin Moscow International Model United Nations 2023. The next stage of pre-model work is writing a Position Paper which represents a relatively short speech in which delegates are to state their representative’s position on the agenda and suggest solutions that fall in line with their national stance. If you want to add some of your own ideas to the position of a represented state/organization, they can’t contradict their official course, statements of the officials and the UN Charter, for sure.

Your Position Paper should be clear, well-structured and informative. The volume of your report remains at your discretion, though in general it varies from 1 to 2 sheets A4 (Times New Roman, 14 font). 

Please remember the time limit for speaking that will be set up during the conference.

P.s. This concerns only the document that you are going to send to the Expert. You can prepare any amount of written text to use during the work at the conference, but in the Position Paper you need only to clarify your state’s/organization’s view of the agenda. 

Writing a Position Paper will help you examine the agenda deeper, understand better the views of the country/organization distributed to you and prepare yourself for the upcoming session. For those of you who take part in the MUN for the first time, this might seem a bit intimidating, but it’s extremely important for fruitful work during the conference.

According to our committee’s agenda, we advise you to research and present the following aspects in your Position Paper:

• Some information on the economy and global role of the state
• Measures taken/suggested by a national government/organization in the field of aviation in order to support the industry and fight global challenges like COVID-19, local wars etc.
• The information about national air companies, airports and membership in the International Organizations mentioned in the Report of the Expert.
• General information on the country’s political course, cooperation with other political actors in the field of aviation.
• A list of theses to include in the Resolution suggested by your delegation (your prepositions for the International Community). 

For the delegates representing observers it may be useful to research:

• The history of the represented Organization, its credentials and competence.
• The mechanisms of interaction with its members.

ATTENTION! You should not retell the content of the Expert’s Report and consult Wikipedia as a reliable source!

To prepare yourself better, you can use the following sources:

• The speeches of the officials of the state/organization.
• The Convention on International Civil Aviation (the Chicago Convention)
• Council Aviation Recovery Taskforce (CART)
• ICAO website
• The sources used in the Report of the Expert
• The websites of national ministries.
• Dag Hammarskjöld Library 

Feel free to address different UN bodies!

We hope this information will be useful for you during preparation for the conference. We wish you interesting work! See you in the fields of the C-MIMUN 2023!

Report of the Expert