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Hey I need sponcers for the resolution I'm writing. Here it is.

Topic: Defining the term Prisoners of War or POWs
Submitted To: The World Assembly
Submitted By: The Kingdom of Cronisia

The World Assembly,

Recalling The Wolfish Convention for the treatment of Prisoners of War,

Recognizing that the Wolfish Convention for the treatment of Prisoners of War has no working definition of a POW,

1. Proclaims the definition of a POW is,
a. A combatant, wearing the uniform of a recognized nation and being recognized as a citizen and member of that nation's military,
b. A combatant who has NOT participated in atrocities ie. The Massacring of Civilians, the execution of civilians and military officials,
c. A combatant who has NOT participated in an act of terrorism against the nation who is holding that person.

2. Decides that any person or persons NOT fitting the definition above will NOT be considered POWs and as such do NOT fall under the protection of the Wolfish Convention for the treatment of Prisoners of War.

If you like it help me out lets get this resolution passed.

1/. The transition from NSUN to WA rendered the Wolfish Convention, along with all other NSUN resolutions then in force, irrelevant.

2/. If the Convention was still in force then this would almost certainly count as an amendment to it... and amending NSUN or WA resolutions simply isn't allowed.

the government of the emperor of urgench, wishes to ask the esteemed delegate of st Edmund a question about their response to the respected delegate of cronisia;
is the w.a. forbidden to use laws of the defunct u.n. even as inspiration for new laws?
if so this seems very shortsighted, since otherwise this old code might form a very usefull store of such inspiration indeed.


yours e.t.c. Nogai, khan of tabagatai. minister for foreign affairs of urgench, delegate to the w.a.

the government of the emperor of urgench, wishes to ask the esteemed delegate of st Edmund a question about their response to the respected delegate of cronisia;
is the w.a. forbidden to use laws of the defunct u.n. even as inspiration for new laws?
if so this seems very shortsighted, since otherwise this old code might form a very usefull store of such inspiration indeed.


yours e.t.c. Nogai, khan of tabagatai. minister for foreign affairs of urgench, delegate to the w.a.


The members of the W.A. are certainly allowed to use the laws of the defunct N.S.U.N. as inspiration (although not to copy them outright, except with the original authors' consent, due to the law against plagiarism...), but the representative of Cronisia's proposal seems to be assuming that they are actually still in legal force which is not the case.


Alfred Devereux Sweynsson MD,
Speaker Afar to the World Assembly
for the government of
The Kingdom of St Edmund.

Then rebuild the original Convention and include this proposal into the statement to reactivate the original document.

The basic definition of a POW is a soldier or military commandant that was caught and interred by an opponent force.

The basic definition of a POW is a soldier or military commandant that was caught and interred by an opponent force.

I hope that what you really meant to say here was "interned"... ;)