Repeal "Ban Single Hulled Tankers"

[Xyrael]

The General Assembly of the United Nations,

APPLAUDING the attempts of Resolution #11: "Ban Single-Hulled Tankers" to prevent serious environmental damages involving oil tanker ships;

NOTING WITH REGRET that Resolution #11 makes no legislative effort to actually prevent the oil spills referenced to, only providing the rhetoric that the United Nations "must unite to ban single-hulled tankers and endorse the use of double-hulled tankers";

CONVINCED that serious environmental issues such as oil spills should be addressed by the United Nations with legislation that contains actionable language to fulfill its intent;

UNDERSTANDING that it is in the interests of the United Nations to eliminate legislation that contains nothing more than rhetoric;

BELIEVING that more comprehensive and effective legislation can and should be enacted to eliminate serious environmental hazards;

REPEALS Resolution #11: "Ban Single-Hulled Tankers."

[Xyrael]

This is an attempt to continue UN Resolution voting by a Taijitan citizen. I will also post on the RMB. Voter turnout has been low. If we want to exercise the power of Taijitu, we have to be a power not only militarily but on the UN as well. If anyone wants to doctor up a nice UN Resolution with me, send me a nice PM . I'd like to see a Taijitan citizen doctor a UN Resolution.

I vote AGAINST. Repealing something because it doesn't fully accomplish an action is foolish.

[Eientei]

I also vote against.  Isn't empty rhetoric what the UN's all about anyway?

[Xyrael]

No, only the General Assembly is empty rhetoric (irl). The real UN also has a variety of sub-organs such as the World Health Organization and International Court of Justice which do a lot for the world and don't get the kind of publicity they deserve. Real life you can't accomplish things in big steps, it's too hard to create the bureaucratic infrastructure. The NS UN kind of assumes such things as funding and organization happen by magic.

[Eientei]

Yeah, I know it.  A lot of the NGO's connected to the UN do good work, and the Security Council holds the real power (not to go into the veto power that causes deadlocks so often.)  It's just that the UN is in general such a good stage for countries to say what they feel they need to say that sometimes that overshadows the rest.

[Khem]

AGAINST repeals

don't vote for it if you don't want it fuckers.

[Sovereign Dixie]

For the record, if I get a vote, eh, w/e but i vote FOR, as I'm for repeals in general, as the UN sucks hairy nachoes.

[Allama]

FOR.  I can't stand pointless resolutions with weak language; all they are is clutter.