Paris
Paris, a city of negotiation
Paris has always been a city where people come to negotiate. The treaty that recognised the independence of the United States was signed here in 1783. In 1919 delegations from across the world redrew the map of Europe here, and in 1948, at the Palais de Chaillot, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. UNESCO and the OECD have their headquarters in the city, and it was in Paris, in 2015, that nearly two hundred countries reached an agreement on the climate. PIMUN belongs to that history. Every spring, students from France and abroad take up what the city has done for centuries, sitting down, listening, and searching for the words everyone can agree on.
