The United Nations came together at Wanganui Girls' College yesterday where the hall was filled with delegates in saris, sombreros and kimonos ready for negotiations.
The delegates consisted of students from Wanganui High School, Wanganui Collegiate, Wanganui City College, Cullinane College, Nga Tawa Diocesan school, Wanganui Intermediate School and Wanganui Girls' College dressed in the national costumes of countries they represented.
Wanganui branch president of the United Nations Association, Kate Smith addressed the delegates and explained that the meeting was to be a simulation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit held in New York in September.
Ms Smith told the students that 2015 is the International Year of Soils and the New York Summit was about sustainable development and climate change but the topic for the delegates in Wanganui would be the Syrian refugee crisis.
"At the real UN conference, there would be a president and a secretary but today I will be both. You will avoid interjection and ask for speaking rights if you have something to say and share it with everyone," she said.