02-29-2008, 10:34 PM
Quote: Repeal "Humanitarian Intervention"
A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution
Category: Repeal
Resolution: #92
Proposed by: Omigodtheykilledkenny
Description: UN Resolution #92: Humanitarian Intervention (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Strong) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
Argument: This Assembly, having convened to reconsider its adoption of UN Resolution #92: Humanitarian Intervention, observes the following:
1. The United Nations through past legislation condemns in the strongest possible terms egregious human-rights violations such as genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity;
2. The United Nations is committed to enforcing relevant legislation expressly forbidding such offenses by member states;
3. The United Nations is not necessarily opposed to international interventions with a humanitarian purpose, but does fear that UN involvement in military operations as stipulated by Resolution #92 is inappropriate;
4. The United Nations expresses strong concerns over the serious flaws evident in the remit of Humanitarian Intervention, specifically:
- that it permits the United Nations to authorize offensive actions against member states, in contradiction of the UN's long-held tradition of strict neutrality in international theaters of conflict;
- that it subjects the territorial sovereignty and integrity of member states to a vote by a panel of unaccountable UN diplomats, allowing the United Nations to disregard member states' said sovereignty at the request of two or more nations;
- that it allows the United Nations to authorize interventions in non-member states, who are decidedly outside UN jurisdiction and are under no obligation to uphold UN mandates, however beneficial or well-intentioned;
- that it grants the overseeing panel unlimited powers to meddle in the planning and execution of intervention operations, greatly impeding their effectiveness and likelihood of success.
Whereas:
This Assembly considers the above-cited flaws to constitute a serious overreach of the mandate of the United Nations to protect international human rights;
This Assembly in particular strongly condemns this act's attempt to enforce UN dictates on non-member states;
This Assembly reassures its members that the enforcement of UN proscriptions against human-rights violations by member states will continue, even in the absence of an intervention accord;
This Assembly is convinced that nations finding cause to intervene in cases of grave human-rights abuses committed in other countries will do so, with or without a UN permission slip:
Be it therefore resolved:
1. UN Resolution #92: Humanitarian Intervention is hereby repealed [/quote]
Yes this usually Antrium's job but I thought I'd go ahead and put it in since I had nothing else to do right now and it needed to be done.
A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution
Category: Repeal
Resolution: #92
Proposed by: Omigodtheykilledkenny
Description: UN Resolution #92: Humanitarian Intervention (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Strong) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
Argument: This Assembly, having convened to reconsider its adoption of UN Resolution #92: Humanitarian Intervention, observes the following:
1. The United Nations through past legislation condemns in the strongest possible terms egregious human-rights violations such as genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity;
2. The United Nations is committed to enforcing relevant legislation expressly forbidding such offenses by member states;
3. The United Nations is not necessarily opposed to international interventions with a humanitarian purpose, but does fear that UN involvement in military operations as stipulated by Resolution #92 is inappropriate;
4. The United Nations expresses strong concerns over the serious flaws evident in the remit of Humanitarian Intervention, specifically:
- that it permits the United Nations to authorize offensive actions against member states, in contradiction of the UN's long-held tradition of strict neutrality in international theaters of conflict;
- that it subjects the territorial sovereignty and integrity of member states to a vote by a panel of unaccountable UN diplomats, allowing the United Nations to disregard member states' said sovereignty at the request of two or more nations;
- that it allows the United Nations to authorize interventions in non-member states, who are decidedly outside UN jurisdiction and are under no obligation to uphold UN mandates, however beneficial or well-intentioned;
- that it grants the overseeing panel unlimited powers to meddle in the planning and execution of intervention operations, greatly impeding their effectiveness and likelihood of success.
Whereas:
This Assembly considers the above-cited flaws to constitute a serious overreach of the mandate of the United Nations to protect international human rights;
This Assembly in particular strongly condemns this act's attempt to enforce UN dictates on non-member states;
This Assembly reassures its members that the enforcement of UN proscriptions against human-rights violations by member states will continue, even in the absence of an intervention accord;
This Assembly is convinced that nations finding cause to intervene in cases of grave human-rights abuses committed in other countries will do so, with or without a UN permission slip:
Be it therefore resolved:
1. UN Resolution #92: Humanitarian Intervention is hereby repealed [/quote]
Yes this usually Antrium's job but I thought I'd go ahead and put it in since I had nothing else to do right now and it needed to be done.