Kate Radzville, Press Corps 24

SPECPOL, General Assemblies — The Special Political and Decolonization Committee is hard at work to fix the issue of national peacekeepers abusing their diplomatic immunity. A brief rundown of the issue, there have been many instances of humanitarian peacekeepers physically and sexually abusing the people they should be helping. SPECPOL has come together to eradicate this issue. The Top Bloc was created to fix that.

Top Bloc is made up of many delegations and led by the Argentinian delegate. He agreed to an exclusive interview with the NAIMUN Daily in which he tells the world about a new resolution to solve the peacekeeper problem.

“I believe that our bloc has an integral focus on communication. The reason why the peacekeepers problem happened is because of lack of communication between the nations sending peacekeepers and the nations receiving the peacekeepers” stated Argentina.

Later on, Argentina explained how Top Bloc will use new high grade technology known as the world wide web and 2G Wifi to educate, inform, and communicate with everyone involved in the humanitarian efforts of peacekeepers.

Peacekeepers were issued diplomatic immunity to be used to protect them from unjust foreign governments, but many abused this power. Therefore, the Top Bloc wants to issue preventative legislatures to limit what circumstances this diplomatic immunity can be applied to. This will make sure that future peacekeepers will be held to higher standards and help protect those in nations that will receive peacekeepers.

With that being said, the world cannot legally try past peacekeepers who abused their power, but Top Bloc does want to reach out to those who have been hurt in the past.

“... as well as rehabilitation centers, to help those who have been previously abused (by peacekeepers)”, said Argentina.

With all of these efforts to fix the trust that has been broken and maintain good relations between the UN’s peacekeepers and other third-world countries, there must be a central source of funding. When asked how all of this would be paid for, Top Bloc went on to provide quite the answer.

“We’re using bonds”, Argentina explains, “we’re partnering with NGOs and also incorporating funding from the IMF, the world bank, as well as working with the United Nations”.

All of this goes to show that even in these trying times, the nations included in the Top Bloc wish to keep peacemakers peaceful and extend their apologies and support efforts for those who have been impacted by such wrongful actions in the past.