Security Council Resolutions

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Please pick two of the four issues below and write a draft resolution on those two issues:

The Cuban Refugee Problem in the U.S.
In March 1960, U.S. President Eisenhower ordered the CIA to direct, equip and lead Cuban exiles, who had recently escaped from Cuba after Fidel Castro took over their government in 1959, to overthrow Castro’s administration. Eisenhower said it was the policy of the U.S. to aid any and all anti-Castro and anti-Communist forces. This occurred just as there was an influx of Cubans into the Miami area due to many upper-class Cubans fleeing Castro’s communist regime. The CIA recruited these anti-Castro Cubans, and trained them in Florida; specialist guerilla training also took place in Panama and Guatemala. The refugees were trained in the use of aircraft and defensive armament during the summer of 1960.
The Loophole in Berlin
Post WWII, Germany was divided into four sectors, each controlled by one of the Allied powers
(US, UK, France, USSR). Yet, soon after, the USSR broke ties with the other allies, and in 1948,
Stalin instituted the Berlin Blockade, where he refused to allow food and other materials into West Berlin, but in May 1949, Stalin lifted the Blockade. The German Democratic Republic (East
Germany) was declared with a Soviet regime later in 1949. Yet, West Germany’s economy and standard of living grew due to a capitalistic economy and a democratic parliamentary government. Many East Germans wanted to move to West Germany. Between 1950 and 1954, more than 500,000 East Germans fled to West Germany. The Soviet Union clearly did not favor this, and it closed the inner Germany border between the two states and erected a barbed-wire fence. However, there was no physical barrier between East and West Berlin, although contact was somewhat limited. In 1955, the USSR gave control of the Berlin borders to the East German regime (not recognized by the West). Berlin became the main point to pass through for East Germans leaving for West Germany; Berlin was essentially a “loophole” for East Germans to escape – by 1961, the 3.5 million East Germans who had left were nearly 20% of the East’s population. The emigrants to West Germany were mostly well-educated individuals who left for political reasons. There was a huge East German loss of working professionals, and there was a “brain drain” for both the educational system and the workforce in Eastern Germany. (The USSR obviously wants this emigration to stop.)
The Soviet Relationship with other Eastern European countries
Throughout WWII, the USSR took control of Eastern Europe; after WWII ended and the Soviet state emerged as a victor, and therefore, a world superpower (along with the U.S.), Stalin quickly centralized his control and began turning Eastern European nations into Soviet satellite states. This means that all of the eastern and central European capitals were controlled by the Soviets after the War; communist governments were established and controlled the police and media outlets in those countries. Many of these states were required to supply the USSR with materials for rebuilding after the war. Overall, oppressive governments enforced strict laws for the individuals in almost all eastern European countries. In some cases, the state’s citizens rebelled against the USSR (some had success and others emerged with even heavier Soviet rule). After Stalin’s death in 1953, Khrushchev came to power with a promise (key word) to ease Stalin’s repressive control on society. In 1955, however, the Warsaw Pact was formed between the USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. This treaty bound signatories to come to one another’s aid should one be attacked (it was a military treaty). Most importantly, the Pact quickly became a political tool for the USSR to hold political and military sway over her satellite states.
Apartheid and Human/Civil Rights in South Africa
Apartheid was a system of racial, legal segregation that was supported by South Africa’s National Party government beginning in 1948. In 1958, blacks were denied citizenship, and education and medical care, among many other public activities, were segregated. In the late 1950s, the African National Congress (the anti-apartheid group) concluded that the National Party would only respond to calls to end apartheid through violence, so they set up a militant wing under the name Umkhonto we Size to fight apartheid. This conflict brought the issue of apartheid and human rights to the forefront of the world’s conscience.