NationStates Jolt Archive

The NationStates United Nations,

NOTING that many weapons can kill many innocent bystanders, such as nuclear weapons, and can also spread beyond their intended target and cause unintended effects, such as radiation sickness, nuclear winter and epidemics caused by the use of biologial weapons,

FURTHER NOTING that the stockpiling of weapons by one nation will encouage other nations to build more weapons, therefore creating an expensive arms race that no nation or group of nations can hope to win,

FURTHER NOTING that the idea of Mutually Assured Destruction only works if all leaders of all nations are rational, and that over the course of history the world has seen many illrational leaders,

DECLARES that all member nations are to try to stop the use of weapons of mass destruction and any weapons that harm mass amonts of innocent people nad violate any basic human rights.

The NationStates United Nations,

NOTING that many weapons can kill many innocent bystanders, such as nuclear weapons, and can also spread beyond their intended target and cause unintended effects, such as radiation sickness, nuclear winter and epidemics caused by the use of biologial weapons,

FURTHER NOTING that the stockpiling of weapons by one nation will encouage other nations to build more weapons, therefore creating an expensive arms race that no nation or group of nations can hope to win,

FURTHER NOTING that the idea of Mutually Assured Destruction only works if all leaders of all nations are rational, and that over the course of history the world has seen many illrational leaders,

DECLARES that all member nations are to try to stop the use of weapons of mass destruction and any weapons that harm mass amonts of innocent people nad violate any basic human rights.

Our office would note that according to the UN proposal rules, repeals cannot be used to institute new legislation and as such your proposed repeal would likely be ruled illegal and removed from the proposal queue. Should you choose to submit a such a repeal, you can remove the last clause so that it will be legal, perhaps replacing it with something like so...

REPEALS resolution #110 "United Nations Security Act"

Deputy Minister of UN Affairs
Thomas Smith

This is the revised version of the resolution.

The NationStates United Nations,

NOTING that many weapons can kill many innocent bystanders, such as nuclear weapons, and can also spread beyond their intended target and cause unintended effects, such as radiation sickness, nuclear winter and epidemics caused by the use of biologial weapons,

FURTHER NOTING that the stockpiling of weapons by one nation will encouage other nations to build more weapons, therefore creating an expensive arms race that no nation or group of nations can hope to win,

FURTHER NOTING that the idea of Mutually Assured Destruction only works if all leaders of all nations are rational, and that over the course of history the world has seen many illrational leaders,

ENCOURAGES that all member nations are to try to stop the use of weapons of mass destruction and any weapons that harm mass amonts of innocent people nad violate any basic human rights.

REPEALS resolution #110 "United Nations Security Act"

This is the revised version of the resolution.

The NationStates United Nations,

NOTING that many weapons can kill many innocent bystanders, such as nuclear weapons, and can also spread beyond their intended target and cause unintended effects, such as radiation sickness, nuclear winter and epidemics caused by the use of biologial weapons,

FURTHER NOTING that the stockpiling of weapons by one nation will encouage other nations to build more weapons, therefore creating an expensive arms race that no nation or group of nations can hope to win,

FURTHER NOTING that the idea of Mutually Assured Destruction only works if all leaders of all nations are rational, and that over the course of history the world has seen many illrational leaders,

ENCOURAGES that all member nations are to try to stop the use of weapons of mass destruction and any weapons that harm mass amonts of innocent people nad violate any basic human rights.

REPEALS resolution #110 "United Nations Security Act"

Our office suspects that even the milder clause you have replaced your previous clause with would be seen by the UN Gnomes as attempting to make new legislation, and would also be removed from the proposal queue. Doubtlessly this is inconvenient news, but we would not wish to see your nation ejected from this assembly for violating the proposal rules repeatedly.

We would also inquire of you: what is this "nad" that your repeal text refers to?

Deputy Minister of UN Affairs
Thomas Smith

Definately think you need a mod ruling - partly because I don't feel it actually addresses the active clause in resolution 110.

Which reminds me.....I need to get back to the mod ruling drafting process....

We would also inquire of you: what is this "nad" that your repeal text refers to?
That was a spelling error.

The NationStates United Nations,

NOTING that many weapons can kill many innocent bystanders, such as nuclear weapons, and can also spread beyond their intended target and cause unintended effects, such as radiation sickness, nuclear winter and epidemics caused by the use of biologial weapons,

FURTHER NOTING that the stockpiling of weapons by one nation will encouage other nations to build more weapons, therefore creating an expensive arms race that no nation or group of nations can hope to win,

FURTHER NOTING that the idea of Mutually Assured Destruction only works if all leaders of all nations are rational, and that over the course of history the world has seen many illrational leaders,

ENCOURAGES that all member nations are to try to stop the use of weapons of mass destruction and any weapons that harm mass amounts of innocent people and violate any basic human rights,

REPEALS resolution #110 "United Nations Security Act".

The BlueTiger government loves this idea, however, in a repeal under current UN laws, you are only allowed to suply argument against what you are repealing. If the repeal passes then you may draft a new proposal to replace the one you repealed.

Sincerely,

Alex Johnson
Assistant to BlueTiger's UN Representative

As well as arguing against MAD, I recommend that you include a point that it would be prudent for the UN to consider weapons-related proposals individually and on their own merit through the established voting systems, rather than establishing a blanket policy of automatically rejecting all proposals of a certain type.