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The UN needs your vote for this resolution.

Please check it out.

It's good UN etiquette to post a copy of your proposal when you are asking us to comment on it.

Giordano,
UN representative,
The Black New World
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WORLD PASSPORT ACT 2004

SUMMARY: The United Nations recognizes that a World Passport with global standardized security features shall bolster global security, while preserving the freedom of movement among all UN member nation-states and regions. This is the first stage in global security standards.

SECTION 1. TITLE
This Act may be cited as the “World Passport & Identification Integrity Act of 2004.”


SECTION 2. STANDARDIZED SECURITY FEATURES

Standardized Security Features will include all the following:
• Digitized photograph
• Optically variable security ink
• Digitized signature
• Electronic chip containing personal information
• Biometric information: Fingerprint
• Passport Security Identification Code
• Ghost Photograph
Standards for photographs:
• Color
• White background
• Photograph must have been taken in the past 12 months, with exception to children under the age of 15.
• Full frontal view of the head and shoulders
• No sunglasses
• No disguises, except for cosmetic purposes
• A hat or other head covering is not acceptable, except for religious faiths that prohibit the removal of head covering. The full face must still be visible.


SECTION 3. WORLD PASSPORT AUTHORITY

The United Nations will establish the World Passport Authority (WPA). The WPA will be responsible for creating, distributing and regulating the World Passport. The WPA will have numerous branches in each member nation-state.
The World Passport shall replace all current national passports effective immediately from the date of enactment of this Act. The WPA shall replace all member nation-state national passport authorities. The World Passport is mandatory for all UN member nation-states. The acceptance of any other form of identification while traveling to another nation-state or region is prohibited.
Applicants for World Passports will go through extensive security background checks conducted solely by the World Passport Authority. All member nation-states and applicants will comply with the investigations.

Holders of World Passports will no longer need visas to travel to other UN member nation-states and regions. This does not include work visas or long stay visas.


SECTION 5. CULTURAL INTEGRITY

The World Passport will have both the UN symbol and respective national symbol.

The World Passport will be in both English and the respective national language.

I would vote for this, even though it is a bit impractical.

Issuing Passports is a National concern, not something the UN should be addressing. We cannot support this proposal.

James Moehlman
Asst. Mgr. ico UN Affairs
Militant Mercantile Alliance of Greenspoint
UNSC Director

take out the personal information stored on a digital chip and I would vote for this. It's just not practical to have your whole life on one conveniently easy to steal card. Think about it, you lose it it get it stolen and you are screwed forever. Protection and verification of identity is good, but some of this stuff seems overboard.

I would not vote for this. A world passport would be great, but no fingerprint scans or anything like that, that is too fascist. No chips with personal information.

The UN needs your vote for this resolution.

Please check it out.

How is this different than the passport resolution this assembly adopted earlier this year? Did you look at the existing resolutions?

Hmmm, I'll see if I can dig up the existing resolution, but by *name* only, it sounds like you may be reinventing the wheel instead of refining it.

10kMichael

Issuing Passports is a National concern, not something the UN should be addressing. We cannot support this proposal.

James Moehlman
Asst. Mgr. ico UN Affairs
Militant Mercantile Alliance of Greenspoint
UNSC Director

Our nation is in agreement.
Besides, what's the point in a passport if not for to get into/represent one's own country?
His excellency, too, will vote against this.

- Yillik al-Sedh
Undersecretary for the External
- Fahruk Elsedor
Head Advisor for UN Affairs

Sultanate of Tsorfinn

Here it is:


As the peoples of the world learn more of other nations the urge to travel and broaden cultural horizons has naturally increased. Border formalities are hampered customs officials finding themselves increasingly baffled by the variety of personal identification each nation requires. A UN standardisation initiative would see world citizens issued with documentation which presents personal information in a single format, easing stress and delays at Customs and Immigration facilities. Tourism generates significant revenues alongside the cutural benefits and UN intervention would stimulate growth in this area of each nation's economy. Each nation would be able to present its travel documentation in a manner and design which reflects its own culture and traditions as long as it contained the standard information.

Votes For: 16174

Votes Against: 3817

Implemented: Mon Feb 9 2004


With that in mind, personally, I think there is certainly room for improvement in the form / presentation, but if this passport proposal has not yet been submitteed, I would recommend that you change it to be not an amendment, but an addition to this resolution. In other words, is there a reference to this resolution in your proposal?

10kMichael

Holders of World Passports will no longer need visas to travel to other UN member nation-states and regions. This does not include work visas or long stay visas.



My nation will vote against this proposal based solely on the above to point:

The right to issue visas to nations is a national issue. The UN has no authority in taking away my nation's right to control who enters freely and who must be subject to approval.

Though sadly the citizens from my tryannies (I'm talking about nations that abuse the UN) are not the problem, my nation regularly cancels travel visas to hostile nations in an attempt to basically annoy those citizens. Often it is wealthy citizens that travel (not the poor), and these are the people who stand the best chance of changing their government's domestic policies. If they have to seek a visa, at least my government has a chance to tell them that their government is a danger to the world (so to speak) and they begin to realize that their people are frankly not welcomed.


People, this resolution will take away your power to decide who can enter and who can't. Visas are another check above passport control, and they are a political statement / political priveledge as well.

The UN has no business taking this away from us, I urge that you do not support this proposal in its present form.

10kMichael