This past weekend LEH hosted our 15th annual LEHMUN conference, with five other schools in attendance and 32 delegations overall. 

Friday kicked off to a great start, with lobbying and policy statements from each country and an inspiring speech from our key-note speaker Estefani Morales-Zanoletti in our opening ceremony. Saturday then got us all back together bright and early, with resolutions flying in left, right and centre on a broad and exciting range of topics, from the privatisation of water in South America to the Somali Civil war. The sheer number and quality of resolutions this year was absolutely outstanding, and better than ever before, with each and every one being very thoroughly researched and extremely well thought out.

The level of debate was also fantastic, with so many people participating and finding their voices to give some very passionate and insightful speeches. Some highlights were definitely the many lively point-of-information and right-to-reply back and fourths witnessed across all committees as well as when one delegate in ECOSOC decided to rap his policy statement. By the end of the day, we definitely saw some world-changing resolutions, the majority of which surprisingly passed.

Sunday’s General Assembly was also incredible with our topic being the issue of world hunger and food insecurity. Delegates demonstrated brilliant debating skills and gave some outstanding speeches, with many delegates working together, in both writing resolutions and clauses, making various amendments, and of course the inevitable yielding chains. Chaos ensued when it came to our crisis of the current Yemen situation, with delegates frantically forming alliances to come up with solutions quickly. The enthusiasm and vigour with which delegates participated was very impressive as well as the great community spirit demonstrated throughout.

All delegates, Chairs and members of the Secretariat will agree that it has been an absolutely fantastic conference. We could not have possibly asked for more enthusiastic delegates, more fiery back and forth rebuttals or more fruitful debate. Overall, I think it’s fair to say that LEHMUN XV was a success!

By Mariya (L6) -  MUN Secretary General