15-01-2003, 18:41
Honorable Nations and Regional Delegates,
The Free Republic of Hauckistan stands today on behalf of its people and on behalf of the Quartz Region to urge you to vote AGAINST the current UN proposal regarding Region-Free DVDs. We also urge all nations who have already lodged their vote to change it before the Friday deadline. Hauckistan bases this plea on the following points:
1) The topic of DVD encoding is not suitable for the UN main body. Let some other body, like the WTO, handle this issue. Asking a political body like the UN to make laws regarding economic issues such as this topic is micro- and mis-managing the world economy.
2) Removing this sort of barrier, while encouraging global trade, may adversely affect the economies of smaller countries whose DVD producers may find it impossible to compete with larger multinational conglomerates whose influence is currently tempered by region coding.
3) The UN should take a principled stand to vote against resolutions such as this one so as to discourage similarly weak and/or meaningless resolutions from coming to the floor. The UN already moves at a snail's pace, and having to spend 5 entire days on the debate of an ultimately useless resolution (notice it has a "weak" impact) will paralyze our effectiveness even further. It will also give a green light for people to attempt to introduce even more meaningless resolutions onto our floor, taking precious time away from important topics that this august body is much more suited to consider.
4) Approval of this amendment will interfere with rules of individual nations in regards to how they administer their movie industries.
Hauckistan and the regions within Quartz are not against fair or free trade, nor do we necessarily oppose the intent of this resolution. However, we feel that it is not a subject that is appropriately addressed on the UN floor. We thus ask that all nations vote AGAINST this resolution. We especially make this appeal to those nations who have already voted for, and ask you to reconsider and take a principled stand to change your vote to AGAINST.
Cordially,
The Free Republic of Hauckistan
The Free Republic of Hauckistan stands today on behalf of its people and on behalf of the Quartz Region to urge you to vote AGAINST the current UN proposal regarding Region-Free DVDs. We also urge all nations who have already lodged their vote to change it before the Friday deadline. Hauckistan bases this plea on the following points:
1) The topic of DVD encoding is not suitable for the UN main body. Let some other body, like the WTO, handle this issue. Asking a political body like the UN to make laws regarding economic issues such as this topic is micro- and mis-managing the world economy.
2) Removing this sort of barrier, while encouraging global trade, may adversely affect the economies of smaller countries whose DVD producers may find it impossible to compete with larger multinational conglomerates whose influence is currently tempered by region coding.
3) The UN should take a principled stand to vote against resolutions such as this one so as to discourage similarly weak and/or meaningless resolutions from coming to the floor. The UN already moves at a snail's pace, and having to spend 5 entire days on the debate of an ultimately useless resolution (notice it has a "weak" impact) will paralyze our effectiveness even further. It will also give a green light for people to attempt to introduce even more meaningless resolutions onto our floor, taking precious time away from important topics that this august body is much more suited to consider.
4) Approval of this amendment will interfere with rules of individual nations in regards to how they administer their movie industries.
Hauckistan and the regions within Quartz are not against fair or free trade, nor do we necessarily oppose the intent of this resolution. However, we feel that it is not a subject that is appropriately addressed on the UN floor. We thus ask that all nations vote AGAINST this resolution. We especially make this appeal to those nations who have already voted for, and ask you to reconsider and take a principled stand to change your vote to AGAINST.
Cordially,
The Free Republic of Hauckistan