NationStates Jolt Archive

Here is another idea for a new proposal. As with my 'Resolution: The Writing of a Proposal', I am presenting this first to my fellow representatives in this forum for debate and discussion.

RESOLUTION: Enforcement of NS UN Resolutions

Section I:
All NS UN Member Nations shall enforce all NS UN Resolutions. Appropriate methods of enforcement shall include:

1) trade sanctions against Member Nations who fail to comply with NS UN Resolutions:
Trade sanctions can include embargos (embargoes? Spelling?), tarriffs, and withdrawal of contracts awarded to business entities in the offending nation(s).

2) suspension of NS UN membership:
For relatively minor offenses, the NS UN may pass a Resolution that temporarily suspends the voting privileges of a Member Nation. This is, in effect, a temporary expulsion from the NS UN and shall be treated as such in all ways.

3) expulsion from the NS UN:
For serious or repeated offenses, the NS UN may pass a Resolution that expels the offending Member Nation from the NS UN. An expulsion may be reviewed, and reversed by passage of a Resolution, no sooner than ten(10) years after the passage of the Expulsion Resolution.

4) war is not acceptable:
Under no circumstance is war, or threat thereof, an acceptable method of enforcement of NS UN Resolutions.

Section II:
Any Member Nation whose actions threaten the authority of the NS UN shall be expelled from the NS UN.

Section III:
This Resolution's effects shall be retroactively in effect as of February 1, 2004.


Would 'Political Stability' be an appropriate category for this proposal?

2) suspension of NS UN membership:
For relatively minor offenses, the NS UN may pass a Resolution that temporarily suspends the voting privileges of a Member Nation. This is, in effect, a temporary expulsion from the NS UN and shall be treated as such in all ways.

3) expulsion from the NS UN:
For serious or repeated offenses, the NS UN may pass a Resolution that expels the offending Member Nation from the NS UN. An expulsion may be reviewed, and reversed by passage of a Resolution, no sooner than ten(10) years after the passage of the Expulsion Resolution.

So if someone breaks the rules, a resolution must be submitted and passed before anything is done?
Sorry, I don't see how this is going to work. Anyone accused of such an offence would just deny everything, and the liklihood is that no-onw would even bother to look at the proposal, let alone endorse and pass it.

Yngwie Malmsteen,
Nibbleton UN Ambassador

What other mechanism could be used by the NS UN to formally censure a member?

Also, the offending party would of course not be the one to issue such a resolution.

There is no mechanism. Nor is there likely to be such a mechanism to do so officially. (see Enodia's notes about repeals and game mechanics in general)

The only official route open is to castigate said nation in the UN Forums, a process that is gleefully carried out on a daily basis. We don't need a new proposal to do that.