NationStates Jolt Archive

Here is a proposal that I was considering:


BELIEVING that it is important for all citizens to be aware of the actions if the United Nations.

ALSO BELIEVING that it is important that citizens in United Nations member countries to have access to such information, and that this information is vital to encourage civic awareness and responibility among people.

FEARING that this information may not be readily available to all citizens.

DECIDING that it is the duty of the United Nations to ensure that this information is available and that the dissemination of such information is properly done.

RESOLVES that:
1. News casts and live video coverage shall be produced of the actions of the United Nations 24/7 (or the equivalent in any other measurements of time).
2. The information gathered shall be disseminated in both radio and satellite coverage media in order to enable greater availability of the information.
3. An online database shall be created of all past and current United Nations resolutions and proposals for public access.
4. The United Nations will ensure that the news is covered properly and fairly at all times.

BELIEVING that it is important for all citizens to be aware of the actions if the United Nations.

Makes sense I suppose, although it doesn't seem like a big deal, the UN isn't exactly a backroom dealing corrupt sorta organization.

ALSO BELIEVING that it is important that citizens in United Nations member countries to have access to such information, and that this information is vital to encourage civic awareness and responibility among people.

Redundant, pretty much uneccessary elaboration on the first preamble clause.

FEARING that this information may not be readily available to all citizens.

Why? I could see mabye some nations censoring the information, but I don't see a reason, if a UN passes a law, it is law, whether you hide the fact or not.

DECIDING that it is the duty of the United Nations to ensure that this information is available and that the dissemination of such information is properly done.

Okay

RESOLVES that:
1. News casts and live video coverage shall be produced of the actions of the United Nations 24/7 (or the equivalent in any other measurements of time).

That's alot of crew and cameramen and stuff, who would pay for it?

2. The information gathered shall be disseminated in both radio and satellite coverage media in order to enable greater availability of the information.


See above.

3. An online database shall be created of all past and current United Nations resolutions and proposals for public access.

See above....and I think one already exists, although whether it counts as existing in RP or whatever is debatable.

4. The United Nations will ensure that the news is covered properly and fairly at all times.

How do you ensure that? Who is to decide where the line lies between bias and unbias? This seems a difficult to interpret task.

All in all I understand the idea, but the resolution just seems to unimportant to spend time on, I mean, how many people really care what the UN does? If it passes a law, then that law is enforced whether or not indevidual UN Citiczens know about it. That, and there is the issue of who would pay for and manage all the equipment and personelle needed for this, and what about nations with no communications technology? To summarize: This is a resolution that just does way to little to justify wasting time with...although it scores points for origionality, and being grammatically correct and reasonably well written.

Makes sense I suppose, although it doesn't seem like a big deal, the UN isn't exactly a backroom dealing corrupt sorta organization.

What UN are you talking about? Surely not the United Nations?

Makes sense I suppose, although it doesn't seem like a big deal, the UN isn't exactly a backroom dealing corrupt sorta organization.

You make me laugh. I'm going to send your delegation some HotRodia Tequila Gold.

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Makes sense I suppose, although it doesn't seem like a big deal, the UN isn't exactly a backroom dealing corrupt sorta organization.

The UN as a whole isn't, I mean, if a resolution comes up for a vote, it's voted on, it passes or fails, it's all public.

Indevidual UN Nations may be backroom dealers (we deal certain things in teh back of the DBL van...er office;) ) but the organization as a whole is, by design, public.