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IMPORTANT: I happily voted in favour of UM's Commendation proposal when it got to vote last summer. While I do believe that Auralia is worthy of Commendation, many voters (by no means all ;P) believe that his other achievements are outweighed mostly by the Afrasiab scandal. This should be much less relevant now but it does apparently remove any hope that he can be Commended; hence the below.
Condemn Auralia
A resolution to express shock and dismay at a nation or region.Category: CondemnationNominee (nation): AuraliaProposed by: Tinhampton
THE SECURITY COUNCIL:
REMINDING every ambassador voting on this resolution that the General Assembly's more than 600 resolutions - of which 23 have been contributed by [nation=Auralia] and its satellite states, more than any delegation bar Imperium Anglorum's - takes priority over their nation's law;
CONCERNED that any benefit that Auralian legislation on recognition of intellectual property (for instance) has offered to WA members is heavily outweighed by the legal morass that Ambassador Martin Russell and company have foisted upon them, often with the support of unwitting superdelegates, such as:
- GA#226 "WA Development Foundation," which authorised an eponymous WA committee to grant loans for the express purpose of supporting less economically developed nations to implement its crushing austerity and privatisation measures as necessary;
- GA#221 "On Multilateral Trade Talks" (mercifully since repealed), which, in aiming to establish decadal free trade meetings at WA Headquarters, actually delivered little more than a venue for already-friendly trade partners to reach "agreements" on trivial matters;
- GA#424 "Repeal "Protection of Biomedical Research,"" which attacked the target resolution for imposing exceedingly low barriers to biomedical research - barriers restated almost to the word when the Tinfectian delegation passed an identically-named law a week later, which stands to this day; and
- repeals of three well-meaning, never-replaced environmental laws (GA#239 "Vehicles Emissions Control," GA#261 "Rainforest Protection Act," and GA#281 "Industrial Pollution Control"), which explicitly served to benefit nobody other than car manufacturers, agricultural conglomerates, and heavy industry;
HORRIFIED at the deceitful, if not reprehensible, acts undertaken by the following Auralian satellites:
- Afrasiab WA Mission, which held WA membership at the same time as Auralia when it submitted "Commend Auralia" in February 2014, a gross violation of international etiquette for which both nations as well as the Commendation were removed from the WA;
- World Assembly Charter Working Group, an Auralian-led and supposedly collaborative international effort, which submitted a repeal of GA#2 weeks later (also removed due to the author's shamelessly self-promoting aegis) with a view to replacing it with a "Charter of the World Assembly" that would have all but established a WA Army;
- Railana, Auralia's WA satellite for two-and-a-half years after its failed self-Commendation, which authored two resolutions so poorly thought out that they had to be repealed: GA#312 "On Universal Jurisdiction" (for preventing the creation of an International Criminal Court) and GA#347 "Foreign Patent Recognition" (for foisting a domestic patent system on all member states, whether or not they wanted one);
DISMAYED at the Auralian tradition not only of refusing to comply with resolutions that require them to legalise abortion and same-sex marriage, but also trying (and invariably failing) to pass legislation that would subvert such resolutions, notably:
- proposing at least one replacement for GA#15 "Freedom of Marriage Act" in 2013 that would allow member states to deny same-sex couples the right to marry; their "Convention on Domestic Partnerships" was defeated four years later for similar reasons;
- employing countless activists to perpetuate Operation: Judicial Review On Trial, where they brought judicial review to the attention of world leaders via an incredibly unsuccessful effort to convince constitutional courts across the multiverse to uphold laws against equal marriage (despite originally seeking the much more promising and less controversial goal of forcing prisons to deliver a massive increase in living standards for inmates); and
- authoring multiple drafts that would have given members major leeway to almost completely outlaw abortion - including one replacement of GA#128 "On Abortion" that would have likely succeeded at the start of 2014 had Auralia's repeal not been defeated by 458 votes - if not effectively requiring them to do so on the pretext that "prenatal life" be legally preserved during abortions;
OBSERVING the vast popularity of two supposedly-convenient gadgets developed and distributed by Auralian state-subsidised entrepreneurs: one designed to allow malicious advertisers to readily churn out constant, unsolicited large-scale telegrams; the other intended (with massive success) to lead hundreds of national leaders to believe that their satellites are being cared for, rather than merely being overseen every few weeks until their inevitable collapse; and
CONVINCED that Auralia - in writing resolutions that are both disastrous and infuriatingly persistent, while at once repeatedly disregarding and assaulting the international rules-based order - deserves nothing more than this body's scorn and contempt:
HEREBY CONDEMNS [nation=Auralia].
