Internship Opportunity at the Kuwait Mission to the
United Nations
To: Kuwaiti
Students Attending U.S. Universities
From:
H. E. Nabilah Abdullah
Al-Mulla
Kuwait’s
Permanent Representative
to the United Nations
Kuwait’s
Permanent Mission to the United Nations
is pleased to offer internships within their
offices in New York City. Selected interns will be able
to participate
in the daily functions and
duties of the Mission. This will include attending
official meetings held by the General
Assembly and its committees, training
in the development and submission of verbal
and written reports on the activities
and speeches made
by members of the United Nations. They will also
become familiar
with the agendas
of the different committees, corresponding resolutions discussed in committees and
the ways and
means resolutions drafted
by member countries. Trainees
will study the obstacles and
challenges facing
the General Assembly through their exposure to
the various positions taken
by member nations on current issues, topics, and
concerns that arise
in the international
arena.
One of the three major
divisions of the UN body is the General
Assembly. Its responsibilities include reviewing, studying and
submitting resolutions on major issues and
causes, such as,
security, international
peace, disarmament,
human rights, and
development. Given the Assembly’s
diverse responsibilities, six committees have
been established to address
specific causes as
follows:
Committees of the General Assembly:
First Committee (Disarmament)
This committee is concerned with
resolutions made by countries to give up their
weapons of mass
destruction, restrictions on types of weaponry,
and conflict resolution without violence. It
focuses on the removal of the threat
posed by the World’s arsenal
of nuclear weapons,
the effect of arms accumulation
on development, and measures
for building trust between nations and
regions. It also
examines the utilization
of outer space strictly for peaceful
ends and transparent
armament.
Second Committee (Economic)
This Committee reviews general
international
financial and
economic issues. In the 1990’s many international
conferences held by the United Nations began
with the United Nations’ conference on
environment and development in Rio de Janeiro
in 1992 and continued with the conference on
population growth in Cairo,
the conference on financing development in
Mexico and the international
conference on ongoing development in Johannesburg. These conferences formulated
policies that could be applied
in different economic areas,
such as, credit, basic
commodities, commerce or other situations relating
to development.
Third Committee (Social and Human Rights)
It reviews social
topics related to women, children, youth, family
and old age along
with issues on human rights including international
treaties and
human rights positions taken
by various countries.
Fourth Committee (Special Political Issues and Liquidation of Colonialism).
This committee is entrusted with
discussing political questions, such as,
ending colonialism, regions that
do not enjoy self-rule, activities and
reports of the United Nations Relief and
Works Agency, Israeli practices
that trespass
on Palestinian
human rights and
other Arabs in the occupied territories. Other topics including the media,
nuclear radiation
and the question of Falkland
Islands/Malvinas are
also matters addressed
in this committee.
Fifth Committee (Management and Budgets)
Administrative
and financial
issues including programmed budgets of United Nations.
Sixth Committee (Judicial)
This committee drafts
all legal agreements
and discusses judicial
issues in general and
deals with agreements
on counter terrorism, in particular.
The Kuwait
permanent mission will endeavor
to provide limited training programs
for students within the systems and agencies
that belong to the United Nations
in New York. For Example:
The United Nations
Development Program (UNDP)
The United Nations
Children's Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations
Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
The United Nations
Population Fund (UNFPA)
The nature
of these programs and
agencies may
be viewed by clicking www.un.org
Posted: March 5, 2004