Model UN 101

A sign that identifies your country. 

• Roll Call
• Placard
• Signatories
• Yield

Countries that are the principal authors of Model UN resolutions. 

• Sponsors
• Veto
• Signatories
• Gavel

Attendance at the beginning of every Model UN session. 

• Veto
• Roll Call
• Yield
• Resolution

Countries that would like to see a certain draft resolution debated. 

• Signatories
• Secretariat
• Delegate
• Sponsors

When a delegate is in attendance and wishes to vote. 

• Present and Voting
• Yield
• Bloc
• Delegate

A person authorized to act as representative for a country. 

• Secretariat
• Sponsors
• Delegate
• Signatories

Informal meeting in which delegates discuss country positions and ideas for draft resolutions. 

• Moderated Caucus
• Bloc
• Quorum
• Unmoderated Caucus

Formal meeting in which delegates discuss country positions 

• Moderated Caucus
• Resolution
• Quorum
• Unmoderated Caucus

A group of nations working together to solve and issue 

• Sponsors
• Bloc
• Veto
• Quorum

A paper that helps delegates to organize their ideas and aid in formatting and representing a country’s policy. 

• Position
• Resolution
• Placard
• Dias