GUIDES // INTEL-010
The Position Paper That Actually Gets Read
// THE SYNDICATE··6 min READCLEARANCE: PUBLIC
Most position papers are unread. EBs receive forty of them, scan five carefully, and skim the rest. The structure below lands in the carefully-scanned five.
The Structure
- ▸Paragraph 1 — Country position. Two sentences. Cite a specific UN document or treaty by name and number.
- ▸Paragraph 2 — Past action. What has your country actually done on this agenda? Concrete acts only.
- ▸Paragraph 3 — Proposed solutions. Two or three. Each one operationalisable into a clause of a draft resolution.
- ▸Paragraph 4 — Bloc strategy. Which delegations you intend to align with and why.
What to Cut
Background on the agenda. The EB wrote the background guide. They do not need you to repeat it. Cut every word that does not state a position, an action, or a plan.
// ONE PAGE RULE
If it is longer than one page, the EB stopped reading at line forty.
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