Republic of Arista

Requests:
1. Ravars acts and omissions with respect to the conduct of the mining project violated
international law;
2. Ravars failure to process the migrants, its treatment of the detained Vinthi people
and the proposed transfer to Zoivel, violated international law.
Applicable Stockholm Declaration principles
a. Principle 1: Human rights must be asserted, apartheid and colonialism condemned.
Man has the fundamental right to freedom, equality and adequate conditions of life,
in an environment of a quality that permits a life of dignity and well-being, and he
bears a solemn responsibility to protect and improve the environment for present
and future generations. In this respect, policies promoting or perpetuating apartheid,
racial segregation, discrimination, colonial and other forms of oppression and foreign
domination stand condemned and must be eliminated.
- A catch-all principle I guess.. (haha)
b. Principle 2: Natural resources must be safeguarded
The natural resources of the earth, including the air, water, land, flora and fauna
and especially representative samples of natural ecosystems, must be safeguarded
for the benefit of present and future generations through careful planning or
management, as appropriate.
- The Tratvia facility, a Ravarian-licensed company and located in the jurisdiction of
Ravar, failed to exercise the required diligence in maintaining the safety in their
facility. The Federal state of Ravar failed to take in consideration the place of
Tratvias facility and its capacity to store the mined coals before issuing a licensed.
Therefore, Ravar failed to safeguard the natural resources by not noticing the
important factors before issuing a license.
c. Principle 17: National institutions must plan development of states natural resources
Appropriate national institutions must be entrusted with the task of planning,
managing or controlling the environmental resources of States with a view to
enhancing environmental quality.
- The Federal State of Ravar entrusted the storing of the mined coal in the hands of
someone who clearly has no means proper safekeeping. The fact that the place
where the coals were stacked was used for a gas and liquid fuel is a clear violation
of the principle. Regardless of the proximate cause of the fire, Ravar did not

consider such fact thus failed to provide for measures that enhances environmental
quality.
d. Principle 21: States may exploit their resources as they wish but must not endanger
others.
States have, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the
principles of international law, the sovereign right to exploit their own resources
pursuant to their own environmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that
activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment
of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.
- The Federal State of Ravar failed to ensure the activities within their jurisdiction
where the Tratvias facility is located. Thus, they did not only place the environment
in a more dangerous position but also the people living around the area.
Other principles related to environment

Principle 4
Man has a special responsibility to safeguard and wisely manage the heritage of
wildlife and its habitat, which are now gravely imperilled by a combination of adverse
factors. Nature conservation, including wildlife, must therefore receive importance in
planning for economic development.

Principle 11
The environmental policies of all States should enhance and not adversely affect the
present or future development potential of developing countries, nor should they
hamper the attainment of better living conditions for all, and appropriate steps should
be taken by States and international organizations with a view to reaching
agreement on meeting the possible national and international economic
consequences resulting from the application of environmental measures.

NOTE:
The Stockholm Declaration aka Declaration of the United Nations Conference on
the Human Environment provides for common principles to inspire and guide the
peoples of the world in the preservation and enhancement of the human
environment. So basically, it mostly talks about environment issue and very minimal
on the issue regarding migrants.

Federal States of Ravar

Requests:
1. Ravars conduct with respect to the mining project complied in all respect with its
obligations under international law and the terms of the KhuTan Mountain Range
Treaty;
2. Ravar has not violated international law in its treatment of the migrants from Arista,
and that the Vinthi people are being treated in accordance with the obligations of
Ravar under international law and their proposed transfer to Zoivel is legal.
Applicable Stockholm Declaration principles
a. Principle 1: Human rights must be asserted, apartheid and colonialism condemned.
Man has the fundamental right to freedom, equality and adequate conditions of life,
in an environment of a quality that permits a life of dignity and well-being, and he
bears a solemn responsibility to protect and improve the environment for present
and future generations. In this respect, policies promoting or perpetuating apartheid,
racial segregation, discrimination, colonial and other forms of oppression and foreign
domination stand condemned and must be eliminated.
- I think this is applicable with respect to request no. 2. The Mans fundamental right
to adequate conditions of life warrants the transfer of Vinthis to Zoivel. The fact the
Zoivel houses the WHO-CDC and has better facility to deal with the disease
outbreak justifies the transfer.
b. Principle 5: Non-renewable resources must be shared and not exhausted
The non-renewable resources of the earth must be employed in such a way as to
guard against the danger of their future exhaustion and to ensure that benefits from
such employment are shared by all mankind.
- The treaty entered between the two states provides for the equal sharing of the
natural resources that will be extracted from the mining activity. The Federal States
of Ravar has lived up to the agreement by providing the necessary technology for
the mining activity and the equal sharing. Thus, there is considered no violation of
any treaty or international law.
c. Principle 9: Developing countries therefore need assistance.
Environmental deficiencies generated by the conditions of under-development and
natural disasters pose grave problems and can best be remedied by accelerated
development through the transfer of substantial quantities of financial and
technological assistance as a supplement to the domestic effort of the developing
countries and such timely assistance as may be required.

- This is in line with the KhuTan Mountain Range Treaty that Ravar is tasked to
provide the necessary technology and services for mining or mining related activity.
Republic of Arista is a developing country while Federal States of Ravar is already a
developed country. Therefore, it is right for the latter to authorized Tratvia, Ravarlicensed mining company, for the safekeeping of the coal in Tratvias facility.
d. Principle 22: Compensation is due to states thus endangered.
States shall cooperate to develop further the international law regarding liability and
compensation for the victims of pollution and other environmental damage caused
by activities within the jurisdiction or control of such States to areas beyond their
jurisdiction.
- The Federal States of Ravar has been cooperating with Zoivel in order to
accommodate in the sad plight of the affected Vinthis. The transfer is in order to
provide an adequate life conditions for the sick Vinthis that can possibly attended if
they are to be transferred to Zoivel who has the facilities. The intention is noble and
not to pass the problem to another country. The Federal States of Ravar is making
up for the problem that happened within their jurisdiction.