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Repeal "Banning the use of Landmines"
A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution

Category: Repeal | Resolution: #40 | Proposed by: Partial Malevolence


Description: UN Resolution #40: Banning the use of Landmines (Category: Global Disarmament; Strength: Strong) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: The United Nations,

RECOGNISING the positive commitment to the protection of civilians expressed by Resolution #40;

CONCERNED that there are serious structural flaws in Resolution #40, including
the use of the generic term ‘Landmines’, when the intent of the original resolution is clearly aimed at anti-personnel mines. This precludes nations legitimate use of anti-tank mines, which are nearly impossible to be set off by a person, and command-detonated anti-personnel mines, which present minimal threat to civilians;

OBSERVING that landmines have a legitimate military use that is primarily defensive. This includes but is not limited to securing borders in times of war, maintaining the integrity of borders between hostile nations in times of peace, serving as vehicle and personnel barriers on the battlefield, and being used as pursuit deterrents by retreating personnel;

FURTHER NOTING that Resolution #40 fails to account for the existence of highly reliable technology that allows anti-personnel mines to self-destruct and/or self-deactivate after a specific time, thus limiting the potential effect on civilian populations after conflicts conclude;

ACCEPTING the safeguards established in Resolution #150, "UN Demining Survey", as sufficient for tackling the limited risk such mines would pose to civilians after the end of hostilities;

CONCLUDING that member nations should not be prevented from using such weapons as the responsible deployment of landmines can actually limit the bloodshed in various conflicts, and by using mines that incorporate the aforementioned technology the potential risk to civilians is significantly reduced over that of conventional anti-personnel mines;

REPEALS Resolution #40, "Banning the Use of Landmines".


Link to Proposal (http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/page=UN_proposal1/match=landmines)

This is something I've been working on for quite sometime and I felt I should give it another try. Any support would be much appreaciated.

Excellent. You have the Federal Republic's full support.

Will this be linked to a telegram campaign?

Ausserland supports this repeal 100%.

We also state that, should this repeal be adopted, we will draft and put forward a proposal banning the first use of anti-personnel mines that are not command-detonated.

Amadeus T. Tankhurst
Brigadier, AoA
Military Attache

Suppot this Proposal 100 %

Supported in full.

The Armed Republic of New Sedona looks forward to reinstating the use of our M-293 Smart Mines!

land mines should be able to be used in the protection of your country, with the abality of a mass sector deactivation, which makes the land mines inactive, unless reactivated.

As a warrior people, we Vandalorians understand the value in the use of landmines and will fully support the repeal. Indeed, as a former warrior myself, I will be counseling our ambassador to vote in favor of the repeal, should it reach the floor.

Novoc Vevut (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/images/Novoc.jpg)
Special Advisor to the New Vandalian Government

The Government of Qadesh fully supports this proposal to remove this ill-conceived amendment

The Newly-Sworn in Delegate of the Protectorate of Qadesh

OBSERVING that landmines have a legitimate military use that is primarily defensive. This includes but is not limited to securing borders in times of war, maintaining the integrity of borders between hostile nations in times of peace, serving as vehicle and personnel barriers on the battlefield, and being used as pursuit deterrents by retreating personnel;

Although we acknowledge the stated flaws of the original legislation, we cannot support the quoted argument and thus must oppose the proposal in toto.

Leetha Talone,
UN Ambassador

Now there's the Rubina we all know and love! I was getting worried about you. ;)

OBSERVING that landmines have a legitimate military use that is primarily defensive. This includes but is not limited to securing borders in times of war, maintaining the integrity of borders between hostile nations in times of peace, serving as vehicle and personnel barriers on the battlefield, and being used as pursuit deterrents by retreating personnel;



Although we acknowledge the stated flaws of the original legislation, we cannot support the quoted argument and thus must oppose the proposal in toto.

Leetha Talone,
UN Ambassador

The representative may not be able to support the argument, but the statement is entirely correct.

Amadeus T. Thwerdlock
Brigadier, AoA
Military Attache

The Armed Republic of Brelhtannia and it's leader, Caligrus Morn, whole-heartedly supports this. May it succeed.

Now there's the Rubina we all know and love! I was getting worried about you. ;)Someone has to stand against the warmongering ... (harumph) ... hordes of this assembly. ;)

The representative may not be able to support the argument, but the statement is entirely correct.We have no doubt that Attache Thwerdlock firmly believes in the correctness of the argument. We, however, question his impartiality on the matter.

--L.T.

The time between repealing and replacing the ban on landmines leaves a lot of time for landmines of all kinds to be placed, and thus, puts the world back to square one with removal of the 'dangerous to civilian' landmines.
We could possibly support the revisions to the ban, however, as I understand it, there is no way to revise the 'flawed' resolution without creating the above time gap.?
The resulting damage to civilians, and the world as a whole, is not worth it, except to the manufacturers of the weapons mentioned.

Frege Gott
Renastere Council of Leaders (Logic)

For the 1,000th time, no. We must remove the faulty resolution completely before any replacement can be submitted. It's not an intentional bureaucratic hurdle; it's just how the game works. See the rules (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=420465).

Besides, if you actually read the resolution (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=7029857&postcount=41), you will notice it doesn't actually ban landmines; it merely "calls for" them to be banned. So naturally there are many nations in the UN already placing untold numbers of landmines in combat zones, sure in the requirement of compliance with the letter of the law that they are not in contravention with UN protocols.

Throw this one out; it is not "banning" or stopping anything. It's just wasted space.

In the Name of the Eternal Kawaii (mtCObp)

Because our nation finds itself in the situation of having to borrow or lease land from other nations for our people to settle in, we are naturally opposed to the use of landmines as a threat to the free movement of civilians. However, we do recognize the ancient saying, "good fences make good neighbors," and understand the utility of landmines in the role of border defense.

The Cute One willing, we will never have to use landmines to protect our peoples' enclaves from their hosts, and shall strive to ensure that such a terrible situation will never arise. But in the interest of self-preservation, we cannot rule such use out. Therefore we support this repeal.

You have my governments full support in this repeal. Newgrounds is a heavily polarized region and the need for clear and secure borders can not be understated. The Millitary Arm of the Central Committee has been struggling with securing are ever expanding borders with no clear way to overcome this problem and remain in the U.N. while this ban is still in effect.


Boris Gagarin USSC U.N. Attache.

Time for a resubmission (http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/page=UN_proposal1/match=landmines)

I'll try and check this thread as often as possible, but I'm going to be busy for a while.

In advance I'll say thank you for any support.