In a General Assembly, every delegate in the room represents a country. A General Assembly debates resolution by resolution. The house takes one resolution, debates it, amends it, votes on it, and then moves to the next one.
In MEDIMUN, the current session has four General Assembly committees. They are GA1, GA2, GA3 and GA4.
Schools apply as delegations. A school is granted one or more countries. Each country gives that school one delegate seat in every General Assembly committee. No two schools share a country. See Delegation applications.
In MEDIMUN, one delegate represents one country in a committee. THIMUN seats two delegates on one country in some of its forums. MEDIMUN does not do this.
In the plenary session. Every delegate representing the same country sits together and speaks as one delegate. The country has one vote, whoever casts it.
The chair opens the meeting once enough delegations are present. See Quorum.
The chair takes the roll call. This sets who may vote and how. See
Delegates lobby. They find allies, merge their draft resolutions, and agree a main submitter. See
The chair selects a resolution and sets a reading time. See Reading time.
The chair sets the debate time and opens debate. Open debate is the normal mode for a resolution.
See Debate modes.
The main submitter speaks first on their own resolution. See Speeches.
Amendments are submitted during open debate time. Each amendment is taken in closed debate, with
time in favour and time against. See Amendment of the first degree.
The house votes on the resolution as a whole. See Voting procedure.
Each resolution is debated in a vacuum. If one resolution on a topic passes, that does not discredit another resolution on the same topic. The house may still debate and pass it.
All delegations have full voting rights. That includes non-member delegations such as non-governmental organisations and organs of the United Nations. They vote on amendments and on resolutions.
One delegation has one vote, and one placard goes up for it.
A resolution passes when the number in favour is greater than the number against. Abstentions do not count either way. The chair still records how many there were. A tied vote fails.
A motion to divide the house may be used after a vote on a resolution. It removes abstentions. There is no division of the house on an amendment. See Motion to divide the house.
Clapping is only in order when a resolution as a whole passes. It is not in order after an amendment, and not in order when a resolution fails. See Clapping and conduct during voting.
A General Assembly has no mandate to demand sanctions or to deploy troops. A resolution that uses that kind of operative language can be referred to another forum. See Motion to refer to another forum.
Most of these problems can be avoided during lobbying by rewording the clause. Changing "Demands" to "Strongly urges the Security Council to demand" keeps the idea and fixes the mandate.
If you are unsure. Look at what the clause asks to be done, not at the subject it is about. The problem is the operative phrase. Raise it during lobbying, while there is still time to reword the clause.
In MEDIMUN, a resolution needs 10 co-submitters, alliances are declared in MediBook, and amendments, speeches and votes are handled in MediBook. See Main submitter and co-submitters.
SCREENSHOT: /medibook/sessions/22/committees/ga1/debate - the delegate debate view during open debate on a resolution