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This is at the model UN conference on a very real conflict that is taking the lives of many each day in Sudan. I represented Qatar--ally of the government of Sudan and pawn of China--on the Security Council. In the end the proposal put forth by the US and Britain to create a joint coalition of UN and AU forces to mitigate the violence was blocked by China through its veto power. Qatar also voted with China and Russia abstained. The conference was yet one more example of the politics and economics that underscore war and violence, and that in the pursuit of material development we should not smother the realization of our fuller humanity.
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