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August 1, 2005 Monday
Cal State-Long Beach scholar serves U.N. at summer internship
By Rachel Furlong, Daily Forty-Niner; SOURCE: Cal State-Long Beach
LONG BEACH, Calif.
Come fall Anahit Samarjian will certainly have a lot to tell her
friends about what she did on her summer vacation.
Samarjian, a student at Cal State Long Beach, has spent most of her
summer in New York City taking part in the United Nations Headquarters
Internship Programme, which began June 7 and ends Friday.
While an internship at the UN is already quite an accomplishment in
itself, Samarjian's situation is particularly special. The program is
supposed to be for graduate students but she will just be beginning
her junior year at CSULB in the fall after she returns from New York.
Samarjian, who is double majoring in international studies and
communications, is a President's Scholar at CSULB. She was born in
Armenia but moved to Fresno at a young age, where she lived until
she came to Long Beach to attend school.
Samarjian is working in the Department of Management at the UN directly
under the secretary of the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly. The
Fifth Committee is on the six main committees of the General Assembly
and is in charge of working out administrative and budgetary issues.
The Fifth Committee meets for three sessions each year. The one
Samarjian has been working on began in May, and has generally focused
on peacekeeping. She attends meetings of the Fifth Committee, takes
notes, and reports on what happened, as well as other odd jobs.
"I don't really do that much." she said. "They can't really give me
anything too important to do."
The Fifth Committee is supposed to be completely neutral, and as a
part of the Fifth Committee, Samarjian is supposed to be completely
neutral on the issues being deliberated.
"It was made very clear to me on my first day, 'Do not express
opinion,'" she said.
However, she has enjoyed being able to walk around the UN headquarters
and to talk to people. She also has her own computer there, on which
she has access to various official documents.
"It's really amazing, I have access to all of these important documents
and information that I would have never come across had I not come
here," she said.
Samarjian said her experience at the UN has been valuable because
she has learned a lot about the world and how it is run.
"I've learned a lot about politics, political processes, world affairs,
bureaucracy," she said. "I really have a better idea of the reality
of how things are run in the world on the highest levels."
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
University Wire
August 1, 2005 Monday
Cal State-Long Beach scholar serves U.N. at summer internship
By Rachel Furlong, Daily Forty-Niner; SOURCE: Cal State-Long Beach
LONG BEACH, Calif.
Come fall Anahit Samarjian will certainly have a lot to tell her
friends about what she did on her summer vacation.
Samarjian, a student at Cal State Long Beach, has spent most of her
summer in New York City taking part in the United Nations Headquarters
Internship Programme, which began June 7 and ends Friday.
While an internship at the UN is already quite an accomplishment in
itself, Samarjian's situation is particularly special. The program is
supposed to be for graduate students but she will just be beginning
her junior year at CSULB in the fall after she returns from New York.
Samarjian, who is double majoring in international studies and
communications, is a President's Scholar at CSULB. She was born in
Armenia but moved to Fresno at a young age, where she lived until
she came to Long Beach to attend school.
Samarjian is working in the Department of Management at the UN directly
under the secretary of the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly. The
Fifth Committee is on the six main committees of the General Assembly
and is in charge of working out administrative and budgetary issues.
The Fifth Committee meets for three sessions each year. The one
Samarjian has been working on began in May, and has generally focused
on peacekeeping. She attends meetings of the Fifth Committee, takes
notes, and reports on what happened, as well as other odd jobs.
"I don't really do that much." she said. "They can't really give me
anything too important to do."
The Fifth Committee is supposed to be completely neutral, and as a
part of the Fifth Committee, Samarjian is supposed to be completely
neutral on the issues being deliberated.
"It was made very clear to me on my first day, 'Do not express
opinion,'" she said.
However, she has enjoyed being able to walk around the UN headquarters
and to talk to people. She also has her own computer there, on which
she has access to various official documents.
"It's really amazing, I have access to all of these important documents
and information that I would have never come across had I not come
here," she said.
Samarjian said her experience at the UN has been valuable because
she has learned a lot about the world and how it is run.
"I've learned a lot about politics, political processes, world affairs,
bureaucracy," she said. "I really have a better idea of the reality
of how things are run in the world on the highest levels."
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress