Model UN

Below are some links to get you started on your research. Be on the lookout for the following things when expanding your research:

• Keywords relating to the topic
• Organizations and institutions 
• Relevant agreements or partnerships
• Existing laws or policies

Focus Questions from Model UN's Topic Guide: 

1. How do your Member States' Free Trade Agreements affect their economy and advancement towards the SDGs?
2. What strategies can developing states utilize to diversify their economies, build productive capacity, and move beyond dependence on low-value and/or non-renewable exports?
3. Considering current global economic uncertainty, digitalization, and climate change, how can countries utilize UNCTAD to design and implement FTAs that promote sustainable and inclusive growth while protecting vulnerable groups and sectors?
4. How can UNCTAD support developing and least developed countries in implementing modern FTAs while considering the historical unequal outcomes of past trade liberalisations?
5. Beyond NTMs, what are some effective initiatives that FTAs should prioritize? 
    

• https://um.dk/en/foreign-policy/international-trade-policy 
  • Ministry of foreign affairs
  • Their stance on international trade
• https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/eu-trade-relationships-country-and-region/making-trade-policy_en      
  • Put in general tab since it talks about trade EU wide?
• https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/countries_e/denmark_e.htm
  • WTO’s member page on Denmark
• https://unctadstat.unctad.org/CountryProfile/GeneralProfile/en-GB/208/index.html
  • UN Trade and Development general profile on Denmark
  • Mostly data
• https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/sub-issues/free-trade-zones.html 
  • OECD international org establishes evidence-based international standards and to find solutions to social, economic and environmental challenges.
  • Page on free trade zones
• https://www.oecd.org/en/countries/denmark.html
  • OECD’s page on Denmark
• https://en.fvm.dk/eu-and-international/international-collaboration/wto
  • Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries of Denmark page on WTO

• https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/eu-trade-relationships-country-and-region/negotiations-and-agreements_en  
  • List of different negotiations and agreements
  • Status of them
  • Might be too much info for them to weed through,but good examples
• https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-faroe-islands-sign-trade-continuity-agreement
  • Article on agreement between UK and Faroe Islands which is part of Denmark         
  • https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ukdenmark-free-trade-agreement-in-respect-of-the-faroe-islands-ts-no242024 
    •    Copy of treaty
• https://openaid.um.dk/project/XM-DAC-3-1-285768?appBasePath=projects   
  • Ministry of foreign affairs
  • Discussing Danish support of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
    • signed by 54 of 55 African Union member states and is the largest free trade agreement signed since the establishment of the World Trade Organisation
• https://trademarkafrica.com/denmark-and-trademark-africa-sign-new-partnership-to-transform-trade-and-drive-resilient-growth-in-africa/    
  • 5 yr partnership worth DKK 200 million ($30 million) to  strengthen sustainable, efficient and inclusive trade across the African continent
  • agreement launches the Sustainable Inclusive Trade in Africa (SITA) programme, which will seek to advance the  implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
• https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/eu-trade-relationships-country-and-region/countries-and-regions/faroe-islands_en
  • European Commission’s page on Faroe Islands