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National Boundaries And Mandates Of America

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Topic 3:
Paris Peace Conference
Working Paper 1.2 Program Refresh
Topic: National Boundaries and Mandates
Sponsors: Australia, Brazil, Liberia, Yugoslavia, Haiti, Guatemala
Signatories: Canada, Czechoslovakia, Malta, Belgium, Liberia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, South Africa, Siam, China, Recognizing that World War I has caused massive damage to the European Continent
Believing that the problem of border issues in the European continent can be resolved in an amicable manner
Encouraging humane and dignified treatment for the people in Europe The Paris Peace Conference; 1. Recognizes the rights of all ethnic minorities and newly freed territories to self-determination;
a. Defines newly freed territories as “territories recovered from the Central Powers”
b. Defines self-determination as “the right that a group of people hold to choose to exist and conduct themselves as autonomous states in all matters including policy and economy;” 2. Designates the use of a census created by the Cambridge University Sociology Department to allow ethnic minorities to self identify their ethnicity and whether they would like to be identified as a nation-state;
a. Endorses the use of reparations from Central Powers to fund the use of the electric tabulating system to conduct the census; 3. Further designates that a survey be given to the citizens of newly formed territories that would allow them to self identify as either an autonomous state or a member of a

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