The World Assembly,
Understanding that travel between different nations is a necessity in the current state of the world and the benefit that passports provide to nations in facilitating such movement legally;
Acknowledging that GA#717 attempted to protect passport and travel rights amongst all WA member nations with the introduction of the Passports, Nationality and Refugees Administration (PASA);
Displeased with the mandate in clause 2a that all WA member states must follow templates laid down by PASA, stifling potential passport innovation and ingenuity with unnecessary and potentially burdensome requirements;
Distraught by PASA’s unabashed overreach in clause 5, wherein PASA is allowed to issue passports solely at its own discretion, with no restrictions on issuing passports to individuals belonging to a WA member nation that may otherwise be disallowed from having a passport by the laws of that WA member nation, allowing for the potential to circumvent the home rule of any WA nation;
Dismayed by the further overreach of PASA in clauses 5c and 5d, wherein with clause 5c, PASA is permitted to issue passports to citizens of collapsed WA members, with no distinction on how this is to be determined, thereby allowing for potential corruption of the system, and with clause 5d, wherein PASA is allowed to issue passports to individuals rendered stateless by non-WA member nations, which is a wholly unnecessary action for a WA body, and has the potential to pull the entire WA into disputes that the WA otherwise has no business being in;
Perturbed by PASA’s ability to interact with non-WA member nations at its own discretion, as stated in clauses 2f and 6b, as this body feels that PASA interacting with non-WA member nations feels like an opportunity for non-WA members to take advantage of the WA, gaining benefits of the WA without being a member subject to any of the rules and regulations that the WA may otherwise impose;
Disappointed that the end result is a committee with powers far extending from what should be acceptable from a WA regulated organization;
Hereby repeals GA#717 “Standardized Passport Arrangements"
