Dear Delegates of the 1990 Arab League Emergency Summit Baghdad, 

It is my pleasure to welcome you to KAMUN’s 26, 1990 Arab League Emergency Summit – Baghdad. This is not just any committee — this is a committee set in one of the Arab world’s most decisive moments, where diplomacy was measured in hours, and every choice deeply affected the future.

I am Mutaz Fakhouri, a twelfth-grader at King’s Academy, and I have the honor of serving as your President this year. The Baghdad Summit was a meeting where leaders faced enormous pressure and no easy answers. As a special committee, we will recreate that urgency. You will need to think quickly, defend your positions fiercely, and adapt to shifting alliances. What you say, or don’t say,  will change the outcome.

Our first topic, “Managing the Arab Response to Intra-Regional Disputes and Border Tensions,” will take you into the months before the invasion of Kuwait, where disputes over oil production, war debt, and influence threatened unity in the Gulf.

 Our second topic, “Rising Soviet Jewish Immigration into Occupied Palestinian Territories,” will challenge you to respond to a demographic and political shift actively encouraged by Israel’s Law of Return, and to address its significant consequences on the region.

This committee will not be slow or forgiving. Expect a war room atmosphere. Tense, fast, and unpredictable. Every statement will be tested; every alliance questioned. In 1990, leaders in Baghdad had no luxury of looking back, and neither will you. When you walk into this room, you are stepping into history, and in this history, hesitation can cost you everything.

See you soon,
Mutaz Fakhouri
President of The 1990 Arab League Emergency Summit Baghdad

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Topic 1: Managing the Arab Response to Intra-Regional Disputes and Border Tensions