Topic #1: AIDS Orphans

Country: Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Committee: African Union

School: Skyview High School (Chris Hope, Senior)

As an active member, and former chair of the African Union, Libya remains committed to helping our people. Libya is determined to solve the problem of AIDS in Africa, but without succumbing to the totalitarian hold of the western nations. The African nations would be sacrificing their dignity, and their national sovereignty for the marginal assistance that Western nations might provide. Our strength in the African community must come from within, for we must not sacrifice ourselves to the Western Nations. In receiving monetary aid from either the UN or Western Nations, the nations of Africa would be saving our children, but only to bring them into a world of ethnic poverty, where the deception of the Western Nations overruns their true cultural. Sacrificing our cultural heritages to the Western Nations is a price too high to pay for any type of support.

Libya has not, and continues not to have an epidemic problem with HIV/AIDS infections, thus we do not have a problem even comparable to many other of our African brothers and sisters. This is due largely to our own internal policies and aid to our own people. Libya is a shining example of what an African nation can do without succumbing to the Western Corruption. Libya stands firm behind its support of progressive, intrinsically motivated, change in healthcare, especially for the youth of our continent. If we are not willing to take action, the problem of AIDS as a whole, will continue to progress until the African Nations can no longer function. Libya pains to see that day approach, and urges all members of this committee to consider the devastating effects of not taking action on this issue. Libya stands firm behind our African brothers and sisters, both politically, and financially.

However, though Libya is firmly committed to quickly and efficiently resolving this problem in a series of progressive and aggressive changes. Still, we must not forget that using the Untied Nations as a platform for funding could bring about the destruction of the way of life that we are fighting so hard to save. African brothers and sisters, heed this warning, we must not succumb to the evils of the West. We must pull together as an African community. Not doing so would simply show the absurdity of this committee, for providing a voice the African people in continental affairs. This is the test of a lifetime for us, my brothers and sisters. Let us show our true strength to the Western Nations and together propel our nations in to the next century, free of fear, want, and AIDS.