Karmicaria
28-12-2006, 21:59
Submitted (http://www.nationstates.net/page=UN_proposal1/match=ban) for approval.
The United Nations;
NOTING that UNR #113 includes such things as the common cold and flu, but does not include non-contagious infectious agents such as anthrax, which enables nations to exploit this oversight and develop biological weapons using such non-contagious infectious agents;
Also NOTING that, although UNR #113 hints at it, it makes no suggestions for defense against "bio weapons";
AWARE that the limitation of 250 mg is arbitrary and unrealistic, as different agents will have different critical masses for biohazard lethality;
APPALLED that the safeguards suggested by UNR # 113 could unnecessarily hinder medical research, especially in developing nations or in nations in which there is a threat of bio-weapon attack and which lack the technology or funding for multi-tier quarantining;
DISTURBED that Article 5 of UNR # 113 would proscribe military partnerships with nations that possess too much of a "bioweapon agent" without regard to the use or purpose to which said agent is employed by those nations;
HEREBY repeals UN Resolution #113 "UN Biological Weapons Ban", in order to make room for more comprehensive legislation.
The United Nations;
NOTING that UNR #113 includes such things as the common cold and flu, but does not include non-contagious infectious agents such as anthrax, which enables nations to exploit this oversight and develop biological weapons using such non-contagious infectious agents;
Also NOTING that, although UNR #113 hints at it, it makes no suggestions for defense against "bio weapons";
AWARE that the limitation of 250 mg is arbitrary and unrealistic, as different agents will have different critical masses for biohazard lethality;
APPALLED that the safeguards suggested by UNR # 113 could unnecessarily hinder medical research, especially in developing nations or in nations in which there is a threat of bio-weapon attack and which lack the technology or funding for multi-tier quarantining;
DISTURBED that Article 5 of UNR # 113 would proscribe military partnerships with nations that possess too much of a "bioweapon agent" without regard to the use or purpose to which said agent is employed by those nations;
HEREBY repeals UN Resolution #113 "UN Biological Weapons Ban", in order to make room for more comprehensive legislation.