SAINT-PETERSBURG INTERNATIONAL MODEL UNITED NATIONS
SECURITY COUNCIL RULES OF PROCEDURE

(elaborated by SPIMUN 2001 President Ilya Breyman (St. Petersburg), SC Secretary Dmitry Koulikov and SC Chair Ksenia Smirnova (Ivanovo) with the support of Ivanovo MUN-Director Dr. Polyviannyi)

1. The Security Council (SC) consists of 15 delegates, 2 Chairs and Secretary. Every member state is represented by one delegate;
2. Every UN member state affected with the matter under the SC consideration should be invited to have its representative at the appropriate session and participate in it without vote;
3. The SC quorum is provided with presence of all 15 delegates;
4. Each SC member state has one vote, the affirmative decision is taken by votes of at least 9 SC member states;
5. The five permanent members of the SC should take unanimous decisions on the issues under consideration (except procedural ones). Implementation of Article 27 of the UN Charter is regulated by unanimous decision of SC officers, who shall take into consideration real-life status of the problem;
6. The SC Chairs and Secretary are independent officials representing the interests of the world community. Chairs may take any procedural decision if they feel it will make debates more efficient. All their decisions must be unanimous. The only priority of the acting Chair is giving the floor;
7. The Chairs
            a. open the sessions of the SC;
            b. propose a draft of the SC agenda;
            c. set the debate time on the issues;
            d. give the floor to the members of the house;
            e. facilitate the debates;
            f. set and announce the voting procedures;
            g. announce the voting procedures on main motions and amendments;
            h. cannot propose decisions of the discussed matters;
             i. have no voting right;
8. The Secretary
            a. formulates the final text of every discussed clause or amendment and reads it to the house before voting;
            b. accumulates and writes down the complete text of the discussed resolution and gives it to the house;
            c. warns the delegates about contradictions between adopted and discussed clauses of the resolution;
           d. mediates between the sides of the discussion during the lobbying time;
9. The SC session considers first the resolution (clause) draft or amendment:
           a. submitted or seconded by more SC member states than the others;
           b. selected by the unanimous decision of 2 Chairs and Secretary based upon priority and contents of the proposed draft
10. The SC agenda may be added or amended at the first session of the SC session with at least 9 votes of the SC members. Representatives of SC member state may propose any relevant question to discuss after all items of the Agenda have been considered under the same conditions
11. SC resolutions are normally accumulated in the course of consideration, preambles are normally composed after the operative part is agreed;
12. Any motion or amendment on the discussed matter are presented to the house in written form (on paper or blackboard);
13. If the first discussed motion passes, other motions on the same issue may be considered only if all other questions are discussed;
14. After all the clauses are discussed and adopted the Chair sets time to discuss the resolution as a whole in order to arrange the adopted clauses in the appropriate order and to eliminate minor contradictions;
15. After all the issues of Agenda have been discussed, SC may consider resolutions adopted by other committees and demanding SC Sanction under Article 11, point 2 of the UN Charter. SC will recommend the resolutions to be discussed during the General Assembly Plenary Session.

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