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 Welcome
letter on behalf of the Secretary-General of the
5th edition of Sofia International Model United
Nations - 21-28 July 2012 - Mr. Joseph Gibson
Honorable Delegates,
It is my distinct honor and privilege to welcome
you to the fifth annual Sofia International Model
United Nations conference, or SOFIMUN, to be held
in Sofia Bulgaria July 21-28, 2012.
Organized by the Sofia International Model United
Nations Foundation, SOFIMUN has acquired world
renown as one of the most diverse and dynamic MUNs
in existence. With delegates from all corners of
the globe, SOFIMUN provides a truly memorable
experience year after year. SOFIMUN 2012 promises
to deliver yet again, and with your participation,
it will surpass even its previous versions.
The committees of SOFIMUN 2012 will tackle
challenges ranging from the ever-present issues of
human rights and economic development, to real
time crisis situations. These committees will be
led by an experienced and diverse Secretariat,
representing more than a dozen different
countries, and whose members stand ready to assist
you in making SOFIMUN a once in a lifetime
experience. More than anything at SOFIMUN 2012,
delegates should expect the unexpected, and to be
challenged in new and exciting ways.
With its highly diverse participants and staff,
SOFIMUN provides a uniquely accurate view of
international diplomacy and relations. Through
both subtle diplomacy and spirited debate, you
will hone your speaking and negotiation skills,
helping you prepare for a career in diplomacy and
international relations. But more than that, the
friends and colleagues you meet at SOFIMUN will
last you a lifetime, and may very well work with
you someday on the world stage.
It is my honor to serve you as Secretary General,
and I look forward to meeting you all in Sofia
this July. Together, we will continue the
tradition of making SOFIUMUN one of the world’s
most successful MUN conferences!
Warm regards,
Mr. Joseph Gibson
Secretary-General of SOFIMUN 2012 |
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 The
idea for the United Nations concept
“I am convinced that the Supreme Counsel and
the Permanent World counsel, which only aim to
take care of the universal prosperity, will
achieve their sacred goal before the end of this
20th century!” – these were the prophetic
words of the Bulgarian engineer Nicolas Dymcoff,
which were said in the first days of September
1918 in the capital Tzarigrad of the Turkish
Empire in front of the editor of newspaper
“Pharos” that was published there. The reason for
the meeting and their whole conversation was
written down by engineer Nicolas Dymcoff at the
end of 1916 and the beginning of 1917 in the book
“Star of the Consent” (from French - "Etoile de la
Conccorde"), which represents an original and
grounded project for the creation of a world
organization for peace and cooperation between all
states, nations, and religions. Nicolas Dymcoff
published his project in French, German, Turkish,
and Greek, and through the foreign embassies in
Tzarigrad, he sent it to many state and
governmental representatives, including the
president of the USA at that time – Thomas Woodrow
Wilson. This happened at the time when USA still
had not been involved in the First World War and
the famous Wilson's Fourteen Points for the
post-war settlement of the world and the creation
of the United Nations had still not existed. And
the biographer of Thomas Wilson (Mr. Beker) later
gave evidences that this idea was not of the
president, but it was loaned from others.
In his project Nicolas Dymcoff suggested the
creation of a Permanent World Council that would
examine “the means, needed for keeping peace and
agreement between all nations in the world”. In an
interview with the editor of the Greek newspaper
“Pharos”, printed as a supplement to the Second
edition of “The Star of Consent”, N. Dymcoff
continued to develop his idea for the arrangement
and the structure of the Permanent Council.
Excluding the three main councils, the author
suggested the council to be subdivided into around
twenty supreme bureaus, which would deal with the
internal structure of the council, the world
security and demilitarization, the relations
between religions, the issues of the nations’
minorities, the world jurisdiction, education and
culture, health services, agriculture, industry,
trade, labor, and others. Even if these
formulations are very cursorily compared to the
statute of the today’s United Nations, we could
easily notice some remarkable similarities not
only in the general idea, but also in the concrete
structure and function of the organization.
The project of Nicolas Dymcoff is an impressive
Bulgarian contribution to the creation and the
work and activities of today’s world organization
for peace and security. His ideas gained
realization relatively recently when over Europe
and the world has been established the sincere
desire for unity regarding any universal values
and virtues.
The information that follows is about engineer
Nicolas Dymcoff and for the purpose of this
information bulletin, the information was
collected from more than fifteen Bulgarian and
foreign sources.
About the Campaign
The Campaign for popularizing the work of Nicolas
Dymkoff is organized by the SOFIMUN Foundation and
the National Union "Treasure the Bulgarian
Heritage". Already the results are visible -
popularization of the work online, naming a street
in Sofia city, printing and spreading the original
book of Dymkoff.
See
more at:
http://www.nd.sofimun.org |
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official media body of SOFIMUN - the SNN - SOFIMUN
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