Ms. Tomoko Iwata, Senior Legal Affairs Officer at the Office of Legal Affairs, followed Mr. Lint, detailing the UN procedures and voting. She went over how quorums affect the process, how amendments and revisions are implemented, and the functioning of procedural motions. Ms. Sharon Bernardeth Juárez Argueta, from the Permanent Mission of Guatemala to the United Nations, went on to detail the step-by-step process of finding co-sponsors, working through defining objectives, priorities, and options, as well as the varying processes based on the specificities of the resolution.
The final panelist of the morning was Ms. Anne-Laure Michallet from the English Translation and Editorial Service in the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management, who centered her lecture on the editing of proposals. Mr. Wannes lead the afternoon group exercise for the fellows where they followed an outline of the submission process and created three mock resolution recreating the process delegates go through on their day to day.
Conference Room 8 hosted the morning session of the fourth day of the training programme, where the Fellows attended the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) Chair Intersessional Consultation session lead by the Chair of the OEWG, H.E. Mr. Burhan Gafoor. Focused on security and the use of information and communications technologies in 2021-2025 through an informal dialogue of the third substantive session of the OEWG, this session was held in a hybrid format with participants tuning in from all of the globe.
Following the morning session, Ms. Michele Lee Clarke-Ceres Co-Founder ‑ World Ceres Inc., Executive Career Coach/Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Consultant, lead the afternoon session back in Conference Room E, coaching the fellows on Leadership and how to be present as a woman working in tech. By addressing this reality, Ms. Michele Lee Clarke-Ceres identified tactics to encourage gender equality in the field and encouraged the Fellows to make themselves stand out in the workplace.