The Opening Ceremony
Friday the 29th of March 2019, the YMUN X conference opened up with speeches by the Deputy Secretary General of the International School of Myanmar (ISM), Htet Aung Lin. He opened the ceremony with his speech reflecting on this years theme "Price of Progress". The conference’s guest speaker Mr. Nay Paing, a journalist working for a Hong Kong based multimedia company Coconuts, spoke about how MUN has shaped his career of being a journalist and how his views have changed after participating in YMUN. While addressing the issue, he reminisced on the rapid development that has occurred in Myanmar over the past 5 years and deprecated on the repercussions of rapid growth.
The conference was officially opened by the sound of the gavel by Secretary General Amanda@ Su Myat Aye after her speech after which the delegates were brought to their committee rooms to lobby and merge resolutions for the next day of debate.
The conference was officially opened by the sound of the gavel by Secretary General Amanda@ Su Myat Aye after her speech after which the delegates were brought to their committee rooms to lobby and merge resolutions for the next day of debate.