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Mildrid Maganda Committee: IAEA Topic: Iran

I. Country Profile

A. Physical Geography

1. Republic of Croatia 2. Mediterranean and continental; climate predominant with hot summers and cold winters; mild winters 3. Map of Croatia: ￼

a. 45 10N, 15 30E b. Geographically diverse; flat plains along Hungarian border, low mountains and highlands near Adriatic coastline and islands c. 56,542 sq km

B. Political Geography

4. Presidential/ parliamentary democracy, President Stjepan and Prime Minister Ivo Sanador, Croatian Democratic Congress of Slavonia and Baranja or HDSSB, Croatian Democratic Union, Croatian Party of the Right, Croatian Peasant Party, Croatian Pensioner Party, Croatian People’s Party, Croatian Social Liberal Party, Independent Democratic Serb Party, Istrian Democratic Assembly, Social Democratic Party of Croatia 5. Zagreb 6. ACCT, WHO, CE, CEI, EAPC, EBRD, IAEA, NAM, OIF, OSCE, UN, UN Security Council, UNOCI, WCO 7. 1.749 million

C. Cultural Geography

8. Languages- Croatian, Serbian, other: Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German. Religions- Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Christian, Muslim, other unspecified. 9. 4,491,543(population), -0.043% (population growth rate) 10. 11. 6.49 deaths/ 1,000 births(infant mortality rate); 75.13 years (life expectancy) 12. None

D. Economic Geography

13. 5.7%; $15,500 (per capita) 14. 2.7% 15. oil, some coal, bauxite, low- grade iron ore, calcium, gypsum, natural asphalt, silica, mica, clays, salt, hydropower 16. Wheat, corn, sugar bets, sunflower seed, barley, alfalfa, clover, olives, citrus, grapes, soybeans, potatoes; livestock, dairy products(agriculture); chemicals and plastics, machine tools, fabricated metal, electronics, pig iron, and rolled steel products, aluminum, paper, wood products, construction materials, textiles, shipbuilding, petroleum refining, food and beverages, tourism (industries) 17. Transport equipment, textiles, chemicals, foodstuffs, fuels (exports); machinery, transport and electrical equipment; chemicals, fuels and lubricants; foodstuffs (imports) 18. Kuna; kuna per dollar US dollar - 5.3735 19. $29.01 billion 20. 1980 May 4, Marshal Josip Broz Tito (b.1892), Communist dictator of Yugoslavia (1943-1980), died three days before his 88th birthday. He was a Croat and tried to spread the Serbs out over the six Yugoslav republics so that they would not dominate the country. His policy was considered a major cause of the Bosnian war in the '90s. 1984 Radio 101, an 800 watt station in Zagreb, became Croatiaâ€™s first commercial station. 1989 Croatiaâ€™s Franjo Tudjman began airing his views on Radio 101. 1990 Sep 30, Serbs in Croatia proclaimed autonomy. 1996 Sep 6, In Croatia a 6.0 earthquake hit the town of Ston.(AP, 12/4/06) 2005 Dec 7, Spanish authorities arrested former Gen. Ante Gotovina, the top Croatian war crimes suspect, after four years on the run. He was captured in the Canary Islands when special police 2006 Mar 2, In Croatia 8 former soldiers were convicted of torturing ethnic Serbs in a wartime prison, four years after they were cleared of the same charges in a trial later annulled as being flawed. 2006 Apr 9, Croatiaâ€™s Pres. Stjepan Mesic visited the SF Bay Area, home to some 50,000 Croatians, for economic support. Croatiaâ€™s population stood at about 4.5 million people. 2007 Feb 18, In Nigeria gunmen seized three Croatian workers. The men were abducted in the region's main city of Port Harcourt. (AFP, 2/19/07)

II. Background

Iran has been involved in the nuclear organizations with other countries since the 1950’s. Iran continues industries of uranium enrichment in the nuclear centers in which 3,800 are working and operating. The United Nations and other western countries believe that Iran is secretly creating uranium, but Iran states that their nuclear plans are for peaceful purposes. Iran’s nuclear activities were for “peaceful, transparent and fully complied with IAEA rules” said for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

III. United Nations Involvement

The United Nations Security Council has made four resolutions requesting Iran to stop its uranium enrichment activities and Iran has refused to negotiate. IAEA haven’t know if Iran has a plan for a nuclear plan since Iran and the IAEA, Iran has refused to provide any support to IAEA investigation on their plans. The UNSC aids the IAEA to be more careful in watching what Iran has done with its nuclear activities. Many problems have occured with Iran to cooperate in the organizations of the nuclear program like the UN Security Council and IAEA.

IV. Country Policy/ Possible Solutions

My country does not believe in nuclear activities and are in agreement to stop in the most we can to prevent the nuclear programs to continue. We believe Iran should stop what they are doing and their actions, so we don’t have to deal with all the nuclear programs. Some solutions we have created is to make Iran see what harms they have caused to other countries. We can all work together to take step- by- step to eliminate all usage of nuclear weapons or any nuclear programs. We should be able to get many countries if we see our point of view and how its affecting with our products and communications within each other. A committee to eliminate nuclear activities with Iran was, RID (restriction in developing) this committee will try to inform other countries to stop helping Iran develop such other materials for the use of nuclear activities. We can meet annually with other countries so we can try to figure out who has been really helping Iran.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/20/content_10383782.htm http://www.un.org/apps/nes/story.asp?NesID=23019&Cr=Iran&Crl= http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2007/070925_Iran.doc.htm