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Guidence of Diplomacy
1. Duties Of Delegates
Each Delegate Has The Duty To:
Respect The Decisions Of The President Or Chair At All Times
obtain the floor before speaking
stand when speaking
yield the floor when required to do so by the Chair
be courteous at all times
avoid the use of insulting or abusive language
2. Written Communications Between Delegates:
Messages must bear clear FROM and TO designations at the top of the notepaper
Messages not fulfilling the above will not be transmitted
3. Yielding The Floor:
The floor may be yielded from one delegation to another only once consecutively
Where delegates consist of more than one member, delegates from the same delegation may not yield the floor to each other
There can only be ONE person speaking per delegation
4. Interruption Of Speeches & Rising To Points
A Speech may not be interrupted by any point except a point of personal privilege referring to audibility
All other points (i.e points of information, points of order, etc) to the chair of speaker will be dealt with only when the speaker yields the floor to either points of information, another delegate or the chair
Points Of Personal Privilege must refer to the comfort and well being of the delegate. It may not refer to the content of any speech and may only interrupt a speaker if the speech is inaudible.
Point Of Order may relate to procedural matters only
Point Of Information may be directed to the chair or speaker who has the floor, if he has indicated that he is willing to yield to points of information. A point of information must be formulated as a question (i.e. ''is the speaker aware that...'' or ''Does the speaker (not) realise that...''etc)
5. Powers of the chair in Limiting, Extending or Suspending Debate
The chair will propose the limitation of debate for each motion.
When debate time has been exhausted, the chair will propose either the extension of debate time, or the closure of debate and subsequent vote on the question being considered
In any case, the chair will be unlikely to grant motion for, or move, the previous Question if there has been no opportunity to hear more than one side of the argument
The chair may, in the interest of debate, or in order to work towards consensus, call upon a particular delegation to speak, even if they have not requested the floor
Only the chairs are empowered to call recesses or adjournments or to suspend the rules. Appeals from the decision of the chair are not debatable. Such appeals will be put directly to the vote in which 2/3 vote against the Chair's decision is required for such an appeal to be upheld
6. Voting
All delegations have the right to vote, in which their placard must be raised in order for their vote to be counted
Amendments- When an amendment is moved to a proposal, the amendment shall be voted on
Conduct during voting- After the chair has announced the start of voting procedures, no interruptions will be allowed except for points of order relating to the actual conduct of the voting
Explanation of vote- After the completion of voting, one speaker of each side will be allowed one minute to explain his vote
Abstentions- The number of delegations actively abstaining will be recorded and will not count for or against the adoption of a motion, i.e. a resolution will pass if the number for exceeds the number against regardless of the number of abstentions.
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