MUNRFE 15th Anniversary Conference: Report
MUNRFE 15th Anniversary Conference has been successfully implemented in the Far Eastern Federal University on December 2 - 5, 2016 and gathered around 70 participants from different parts of the world. The Conference was opened by the following keynote speakers at the Opening ceremony: FEFU Vice-President for Academic Affairs Dr. Andrey N. Shushin, MUNRFE Director-General Mr. Vitaly E. Savenkov, the Second Secretary of the Representation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia in Vladivostok, Mr. Evgeny S. Volosastov and the Secretary-General of the Conference Ms. Elena A. Kiseleva. In frames of the Conference four committees were simulated: one in Russian - UN General Assembly and three in English - UN Security Council, UN Human Rights Council and World Bank. Besides taking part in the MUN debates, the participants had an opportunity to attend two seminars in English and in Russian led by Dr. Semyon Korotich and Mr. Ilya Sinenko respectively. Traditionally, those delegates who demonstrated the most outstanding skills and knowledge were granted an honor to represent MUNRFE at the National Model United Nations 2017 in New York. According to the results, the Outstanding Delegates are Anna Timokhina (China, World Bank), Aleksandra Kosyreva (China in Human Rights Council) and Julia Nedel'kina (United Kingdom, World Bank). MUNRFE warmly congratulates the outstanding delegates and wishes to represent our organization at the highest level at the upcoming NMUN - New York 2017.
We are also pleased to congratulate those delegates, who received a recognition in other categories:
Outstanding Delegate to the General Assembly:
Polina Varfolomeeva (Vladivostok), delegate of Slovenia
Outstanding Documents Award:
Alena Filimonova (Vladivostok), United Kingdom (Security Council)
Outstanding Delegations:
United Kingdom: Diana Novikova, Julia Nedel'kina and Alena Filimonova (Vladivostok), adviser - Elena Kiseleva;
France: Anastasia Klopova, Kristina Nozhnuk, Julia Samokrutova and Margarita Vashchenko (Blagoveshchensk), advisers - Marina Katynskaya and Ksenia Shevtsova;
Distinguished Delegations:
Far Eastern Federal University
Amur State University
Jilin University
Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service
Khabarovsk State University of Economics and Law
MUNRFE 15th Anniversary Conference would never become real without hard work and contribution made by the Secretary-General, Ms. Elena A. Kiseleva and the Under-Secretary-General for Conference Management, Ms. Ekaterina Tretiakova. MUNRFE grateful devotion and desire of these bright ladies to implement the conference at the highest level possible. Moreover, MUNRFE would like to express its appreciation to the Secretariat for contributing to the substantial component of the Conference: Mr. Jesse Thomas, Ms. Ksenia Shevtsova, Ms. Victoria Yavorskaya, Ms. Aleksandra Gritsenko, Mr. Henry Ngo-Sytchev and Mr. Ilya Sinenko. MUNRFE also thanks the Department for Conference Management for dealing with infrastructural and organizational issues, and for providing us with constant informational coverage through "Responsibility to Inform" newspapers, photos and videos, namely: Julia Nedel'kina, Diana Novikova, Aleksandra Kosyreva, Konstantin Golnev, Pavel Nesterov, Sofia Permyakova, Ekaterina Efimkina, Alisa Ruabceva, Maria Konishcheva and Roman Snegurov. Besides, we thank Ivan Kumets for creating an amazing video for the Opening Ceremony of the Conference.
MUNRFE is pround to successfully continue the tradition of implementation of its annual conferences and is looking forward to see the participants of the 15th Anniversary Conference at our future events!