MUN Vocabulary

A sign that identifies your country

• Gavel

• Chair

• Placard

• Veto

Attendance at rhe beginning of every Model UN session

• Roll Call

• Moderarted Caucus

• Unmoderated Caucus

• Quorum

A paper that helps delegates to organize their ideas and aid in formatting and representing a country's policy

• Amendment

• Position Paper

• Resolution

• Speakers List

The tool shaped like a small wooden hammer that the Chair uses to keep order

• Chair

• Veto

• Gavel

• Amendement

A list that determines the order in which delegates will speak

• Secretariat

• Speakers List

• Quorum

• Moderated Caucus

Countries that are princupal authors of model UN resolutions

• Secretariat

• Speakers List

• Sponsors

• Delegate

Informal meeting in which delegates discuss country positionsand ideas for draft resolutions.

• Moderated Caucus

• Unmoderated Caucus

• Quorum

• Resolution

To give up time, usually to questions or another delegate

• Bloc

• Yield

• Sponsor

• Debate