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Studio # 9   General Assembly Voting Criteria

 

Inter-State Coalition for International Security

 

The General Assembly includes participation in a (hypothetical) international organization.   The participants in the session have been assigned to the Inter-state Coalition for International Security.  The purpose of this organization is to coordinate the efforts of all major countries to address key problems of international security.  The mandate of the ISCIS is to pursue the public interest of all countries in the international community to ensure greater security.   The ISCIS has specialist teams.  These teams are organized in five thematic areas:  

 

1)    Drug trafficking

2)    Weapons trafficking

3)    Weapons of Mass Destruction

4)    Strategy of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency

5)     Ideology

 

2007 Fiscal Year Spending Priorities: 

 

One of the main purposes of the General Assembly is to establish the spending priorities for the next fiscal year.  The ISCIS is using the fiscal year system beginning on 1 October, 2006 for the beginning of FY 2007.  The funds made available for FY 2006 ISCIS Program Spending amounted to $300 million dollars.  The funds available for FY 2007 will be reduced because of a reduction in country contributions.  FY 2007 spending will total $250 million. 

 

In FY 2006 the ISCIS funding was appropriated according to the following distribution. 

 

1)    Drug trafficking    20 %

2)    Weapons trafficking   30 %

3)    Weapons of Mass Destruction  20 %

4)    Strategy of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency  15 %

5)       Ideology  15 %

 

The General Assembly will debate the past contributions and the spending targets for FY 2007. 

 

 

Gregory Gleason   Social Science Bldg. Room 2064
 

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