Young leaders use UN as learning tool

RIGA - Students have until Jan. 15 to register for the March 3
international student conference Riga International Model of United
Nations in Jurmala from March 3 through March 7. RIMUN will be
organized by the nonprofit international student exchange association
AIESEC.

The purpose of the conference is to focus students' and then whole
community's attention on common world problems, globalization
processes and sustainable development through stronger international
cooperation among countries, said Vladimir Karol, an organizer.

Through conference activities the students will aim at working out
possible solutions to global problems using basic objectives and
tasks of the UN and in the process learn about the UN and its role.

The RIMUN conference offers its delegates an opportunity to present
their essays, listen to lectures, work in groups and to simulate a UN
conference to experience and realize the importance of making global
decisions. More than 100 students from the Baltic states, Ukraine,
Belarus, Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Turkey, Norway, Sweden,
Finland, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands are invited to
participate in the conference. The conference is being organized with
the support of United Nations Development Program.

Students should send their applications and essays based either on
world globalization or sustainable-development problem solving to
AIESEC's Riga office before Jan. 15. More information: (371) 7 226
113.

RIMUN also features an international exchange program: in which about
10-15 Latvian students participate in two months' traineeships in
intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations abroad.

About the same number of traineeship places in intergovernmental and
nongovernmental organizations will be found in Baltic countries for
foreign students.

RIMUN exchange program is an analogue to international student
exchange program, which is a core activity of AIESEC all around the
world.