Send Your Condolences To France

When a member of the IPC entered the Security Council, there were hopes of getting a few interviews with countries to get a better grasp on what’s happening in the war ridden country of Algeria. Instead, countries were up in arms exchanging retorts on behalf of France. Where is France you ask? They fell victim to the snow storm. What was left was a paper written by France with notes to help pass a resolution. Japan and Peru were arguing over whether France really meant what they wrote. Japan states that the notes are fake, and act as propaganda. This is due to the notes being the opposite of everything France has stated since the beginning of the conference. Nigeria swoops in and explains that the chairs said that countries are allowed to take “inspiration” from France's notes, they just can’t act as France's “ideas”. Additionally, the UK expresses that the actual problem is the FLN (National Liberation Front). The United States retorts by exclaiming that even if Alergia was to get independence, who would govern them? No country was planning to pass the resolution Friday night without France present. Overall it’s difficult without the leading country France, it will be interesting to see how this gets resolved with France being in the committee Saturday.

Reported on by IPC Delegate Lucia Coipel