NationStates Jolt Archive

The United Nations. It's an organization put together to further partnership between nations. It is not a law producing body. It is not there to tell nations what they should be doing. It it there to foster peace among our nations.

This means, that any resolution that comes up and says "There will be a law and everyone will do this..." is unexceptable.

I'm all for setting up NGO's through the UN that will say "clean up toxic waste" or "advise countries on best courses of action." But, in no way, shape or form will I vote for a resoultion that stomps on my soverienty as a nation, by forcing me to enact certain laws or pay for things I or my fellow nations may not want to do.

It's irrelevant whether I have certain laws to begin with, I still don't like being told what to do by a bunch of people who have never even visited Corneil. That's not what the UN is about, and I hope that someday, those of you who think it is, will wise up!

National Soverienty Forever!

You are messing up the RL-UN and the NS-UN.

Did you even read the UN thing? I think it specific says that the UN is the world governing body.

You are messing up the RL-UN and the NS-UN.

Quite so. Corneil, there are instances where I have felt the UN to be overstepping its boundaries, but to flat-out say that it is doing so with every resolution is untrue. The UN has an obligation to keep the peace and harbor harmony between its members. You are, of course, free to resign from the UN if you don't like what it is doing, but the vast majority of NationStates who are in the UN are fine with it, or so it seems.

Aye Aye. A lot of people keep thinking the NS-UN is like the RW-UN and is limited in its powers. Not so. The NS-UN can pass whatever laws it wants, and does not have to respect national sovereignity.

Of course, don't get me wrong. I would love to have the powers of the UN limited and national sovereignity respected, but there simply is no way to legally do it. :?