Cretox
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No cute name this time. 
I bring the following legislative proposal before the Regional Assembly:
So that we're all on the same page: When a nation applies to join the Security Council, the SC may nominate that nation for a seat on the SC by simple majority vote following a discussion period. This turns what may otherwise be a 2/3rds majority Regional Assembly appointment vote into a simple majority RA confirmation vote, in addition to demonstrating the SC's stance on a prospective new member.
Under the current Article 5 Clause 3 of the Constitution, Security Council nominations are indefinite. What this means is that a nation can be nominated, join the SC, leave, and have all future applications bypass SC discussion/voting and go straight to the RA for confirmation. As per this recently passed vote in Council Chambers, there are currently no active standing nominations. Standing nominations must be manually revoked by SC vote.
The purpose of this clause of the Constitution is to allow for trusted former members of the SC to quickly rejoin the SC, especially in times when the SC is short on members. However, the clause fails to accomplish that goal in any practical sense, and only serves to render what should be a controlled and measured process unnecessarily chaotic. The SC's nomination process is not the primary bottleneck in terms of time for an applicant to join the SC: the RA is. The SC can afford a few days to discuss any applicant, especially since the circumstances of a second or third application can and usually are different from a first one. The SC is an indefinite position, after all. This clause also does nothing to help the region deal with crisis situations, since the SC procedure already has a process for quickly granting nonmembers access to the SC chambers. Shaving off a small part of the overall time spent from application to confirmation does little in crisis situations, and is unnecessary. All that this clause does is create unnecessary work and introduce unnecessary variables to an admission process that doesn't need them.
This amendment would change the nature of standing nominations such that they are only valid until an applicant is confirmed by the RA, or until the SC manually revokes them in situations where the RA has not confirmed a nominated applicant at that time.
This bill was an offshoot of the SC's discussion of revoking the current standing nominations, and was discussed alongside that other motion.
I bring the following legislative proposal before the Regional Assembly:
3. Nominations remain in effect until voted on by the Regional Assembly, or until revoked by majority vote of the Security Council.
3. Nominations remain in effect until revoked by majority vote of the Security Council.
Article 5 Clause 3 of the Constitution of The North Pacific shall be amended as follows:
So that we're all on the same page: When a nation applies to join the Security Council, the SC may nominate that nation for a seat on the SC by simple majority vote following a discussion period. This turns what may otherwise be a 2/3rds majority Regional Assembly appointment vote into a simple majority RA confirmation vote, in addition to demonstrating the SC's stance on a prospective new member.
Under the current Article 5 Clause 3 of the Constitution, Security Council nominations are indefinite. What this means is that a nation can be nominated, join the SC, leave, and have all future applications bypass SC discussion/voting and go straight to the RA for confirmation. As per this recently passed vote in Council Chambers, there are currently no active standing nominations. Standing nominations must be manually revoked by SC vote.
The purpose of this clause of the Constitution is to allow for trusted former members of the SC to quickly rejoin the SC, especially in times when the SC is short on members. However, the clause fails to accomplish that goal in any practical sense, and only serves to render what should be a controlled and measured process unnecessarily chaotic. The SC's nomination process is not the primary bottleneck in terms of time for an applicant to join the SC: the RA is. The SC can afford a few days to discuss any applicant, especially since the circumstances of a second or third application can and usually are different from a first one. The SC is an indefinite position, after all. This clause also does nothing to help the region deal with crisis situations, since the SC procedure already has a process for quickly granting nonmembers access to the SC chambers. Shaving off a small part of the overall time spent from application to confirmation does little in crisis situations, and is unnecessary. All that this clause does is create unnecessary work and introduce unnecessary variables to an admission process that doesn't need them.
This amendment would change the nature of standing nominations such that they are only valid until an applicant is confirmed by the RA, or until the SC manually revokes them in situations where the RA has not confirmed a nominated applicant at that time.
This bill was an offshoot of the SC's discussion of revoking the current standing nominations, and was discussed alongside that other motion.
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