The General Assembly,
Appreciating GA 585's efforts to build on the encouragement of
GA 570 "Disaster Precautions And Responses" for "[t]he creation of nationally-based systems in order to gather and disseminate information regarding imminent and ongoing disasters,"
Failing to see, however, what the target contributes to this body's volume of legislation that isn't already accomplished by GA 570,
Confused by the utter weakness of the target's core mandates - that "member states must create emergency communications systems which shall be utilized to communicate with their residents regarding emergency events" and "shall utilize a variety of means to communicate with their citizens during an emergency event… commensurate with the technology available in each member state" - especially considering that GA 570 already establishes a comprehensive international framework for disaster prediction, communication, and much more through the World Assembly Disaster Bureau (WADB),
Adding that while GA 570's framework is written in such a way as to provide some guarantee of its effectiveness, the target's requirements for "a variety of means" that "shall be commensurate with the technology available" offer no such thing,
Bewildered by the target requiring "the member state first affected" by an emergency event to notify other nations threatened by it "if the disaster would otherwise be likely to surprise the other nation," which is not only redundant with the WADB's own mandate to notify affected nations, but somehow expects nations navigating a disaster to expend precious time and resources figuring out which other nations might be "surprise[d]" by it and notifying them,
Saddened that the target's requirements that nations "prioritize the broadcasting of localized or regionalized messaging in emergency events if practical under the circumstances" and "undertake regular testing of all emergency communications systems and to ensure that the equipment used, if any special equipment is used, is in good repair" are just as weaksauce, unnecessary, and poorly conceived as the rest of this resolution,
Believing that while a resolution having redundancy doesn't make it inherently bad, it should at least provide some decent superadded benefit to justify its existence and be written in such a way as to avoid potential for unnecessary confusion and waste of resources,
Befuddled at the target's weak attempt at superfluously handling an already handled, fundamentally international issue at the national level,
Musing that nonbinding encouragement clauses are sometimes best left as just that, and
Finding it amusing that a resolution on disaster readiness is so flimsy that it might as well be made of cheap plywood,
Hereby repeals GA 585.
