[Draft] WA Digest - March

[Deropia]

World Assembly Affairs Digest​

Minister: Deropia
Deputy Minister: Kranostav
Deputy Minister: Veniyerris
Deputy Minister: Stoskavanya

From the Minister's desk:

With the end of March comes a new edition of The Northern Lights and with it, another World Assembly Digest. The Ministry has had quite the month, with the launch of the new sponsorship program, we saw the successful passage of our first sponsored resolution! Congratulations are due to Stoskavanya on the passage of their first WA resolution as well as for their appointment as our third Deputy Minister of World Assembly Affairs! We also saw a rise in Security Council proposals this month, which has kept our staffers busy with resolution analysis.

General Assembly​

Improving the world, one resolution at a time.
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Proposal: Protection of Biomedical Research
Status: Passed
Delegates Vote: For
Forum Vote: For: 9 Against: 3 Abstain: 0
Final Vote (TNP): For: 592 Against: 39 Percentage of WA nations voting: 41.48%
Final Vote (World): For: 15,039 Against: 4,595
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Recommendation: Protection of Biomedical Research seeks to reinstate rules previously repealed in the GA. The proposal has been modified to reflect concerns put forth by WA members.

The relatively mild proposal seeks to ensure a standard of ethics and scientific rigor in biomedical experiments within the World Assembly. It ensures that member states engage only in research where the well-being and ethical treatment of the subjects are prioritized, but in a manner which makes additional testing on both human and lab animal tests possible. More importantly, the proposal preempts future attempts to block biomedical research in the name of religious or moral objections, ensuring that WA members can engage in research in the best interests of their populations.

For these reasons, the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommended voting for the resolution.

Proposal: Protecting Minority Languages
Status: Passed
Delegates Vote: For
Forum Vote: For: 11 Against: 1 Abstain: 0
Final Vote (TNP): For: 548 Against: 89 Percentage of WA nations voting: 41.41%
Final Vote (World): For: 16,679 Against: 3,619
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In examining Protecting Minority Languages the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs has found that this proposal contains a common sense set of mandates to help protect the existence of minority languages, without infringing on a nations right to have its own official language, and a committee that helps protect this. For these reasons, the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommended a vote for this proposal.

Proposal: Protecting Freshwater from Manufacturing Bill
Status: Defeated
Delegates Vote: Against
Forum Vote: For: 1 Against: 9 Abstain: 2
Final Vote (TNP): For: 461 Against: 154 Percentage of WA nations voting: 40.48%
Final Vote (World): For: 8,314 Against: 11,215
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Recommendation: This proposal attempts to address concerns that freshwater that is safe for drinking is becoming increasingly scarce. However, this proposal appears to be poorly written, with overly complicated definitions and vague language. Additionally, the proposal forgets the variety of WA member states, and uses fixed measures of time, both of which make the proposal more difficult to follow for member states. This ministry believes that the proposal has great potential, and that if the issues outlined here were addressed, there would be more support for it.
It is for these reasons that the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommended a vote Against the proposal.

Security Council​

Spreading interregional peace and goodwill, via force if necessary.
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Proposal: Liberate Nazi Europia
Status: Passed
Delegates Vote: For
Forum Vote: For: 1 Against: 7 Abstain: 1
Final Vote (TNP): For: 506 Against: 91 Percentage of WA nations voting: 38.34%
Final Vote (World): For: 15,329 Against: 3,546
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Recommendation: Like the previous liberation that was before the Security Council, this proposal targets a Nazi region in an attempt to make it vulnerable to refounding should the current founder cease to exist or be deleted by NationStates moderators. The Ministry would note however, that the proposal is poorly written and lacks the quality usually expected of World Assembly resolutions. That being said, the statement made by this proposal is clear and provides the community with a way to strike back against those who hold such hateful and bigoted ideologies.

For these reasons, The Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommends a vote for the resolution.

Proposal: Liberate The East Pacific
Status: Passed
Delegates Vote: Against
Forum Vote: For: 4 Against: 12 Abstain: 1
Final Vote (TNP): For: 369 Against: 241 Percentage of WA nations voting: 39.02%
Final Vote (World): For: 14,347 Against: 4,182​

Recommendation: Liberate The East Pacific, though well written, would have been better submitted as a condemnation. Liberations remove delegate imposed passwords from a region, however, since The East Pacific is a Game Created Region, a password cannot be imposed, thus making this liberation essentially pointless.

For these reasons, the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommends a vote against the resolution.

 

[Siwale]

Looks good!

 

[Kaschovia]

Praise!