COMUN XXIV

General Opening/Closing Ceremony agenda Chairs Details about the first Practice Debate. Non Chairs Conference Guide/ Delegate Manual Printing of Placards Magazine Formatting Point System School Registrations

General We met at Coffee Bean to discuss general updates.  Non-Chairs Publicity with the Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook page  Study guides formatting, poised to be released. Joining MUNPLANET Discussing a theme video "discussing combatting belicose rhetoric" Exco video for the end of conference Promotional video Chairs Study Guides final changes Head of Photography absent so no pictures this session

General Number of Awards confirmed including 2 Best Exco Awards Best Delegation  Community Service Award - Trophy *No Best School Award this year Very short session this week with an absent Head of Photography

This week's COMUN workshop was a massive success with attendance being over 125 people, with attendance from all over Colombo with schools like CIS, BSC, TIS, Lycuem, Gateway etc. The meeting ran very smoothly with a brilliant introduction to COMUN from the Secretary General Sanoj Jayakody about changes we are set to implement, dictating the tone for the follow-up to this years phenomenal conference. Danindhu then came up and introduced the exciting theme for this year, explaining what we intend to convey by picking this "The Next Generation: Combatting Bellicose Rhetoric", a theme truly representative of our spruce and perspicacious 2017 EXCO. Viren and Senal then introduced the sequence of events with the introduction of the individual GA's and their explanation of their topics and what they're looking for in a delegate wanting to join, and why they should join. We then brought out all the chairs of the GA's for a Q&A session for any queries. T

General Faculty Adviser Meeting Agenda discussed Chairs Discussed guidelines for giving awards, and the feasibility of an intercom session in terms of good debates. Study Guides finished and formatting to be completed by next week. Non-Chairs Website bug fixes Placard design and t-shirt design.

This Saturday, we had our annual FA meeting at OSC. Ex-co Members arrived at OSC early for a quick run through. Secretary General Sanoj Jayakody introduced the new COMUN 2017 EXCO and the changes we intend on implementing this year to make this year a truly monumental conference. Our theme for the year The New Generation: Combating Bellicose Rhetoric thus reflects our exco and the conference as we are trying to achieve. Therefore Danindhu who has suggested the theme, introduced it in the meeting. Then Abdul came up to introduce the community service project for this year wherein we will be continuing the tradition of collecting stationary to donate. The chairs then introduced their committees and spoke a bit about what they wanted in their delegates and what the topics were about. Finally, we then discussed logistics about the workshop, PDs and conference such general dress code, admin quotas, and registration. We ended with a showing of the official website and the final