I thought I’d start the ball rolling and toss out a first draft of a resolution that would create reoccurring
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The Group of Twenty (G20)
Category: Declaration | Authored by: Coffee mostly
The World Assembly,
Recognizing the need for a series of regular intergovernmental forums to facilitate discussions between world powers on current events and international challenges,
Believing that the international recognition and codification of these forums will help ensure structure, continuity, and adoption,
Cognizant of the importance of giving special voice to smaller regions internationally in recognition of the contributions they make to NationStates and the international community-at-large,
Hereby declares:
Article 1: Membership
- The Group of Twenty (G20) shall include the twenty regions with the most highly endorsed WA delegates in NationStates on January 1st of the current year.
- In the event of a tie, all qualifying regions will form the G20 for that year.
- The G20 shall also include special membership, with full voting and hosting rights, to the United Regions Alliance (URA) and may elect only by a two-thirds decision to revoke this membership and/or confer this membership to a different region or organization.
Article 2: Summits
- Diplomatic representatives of all G20 members are invited to attend biannual G20 summits during the first week of February and the first week of August of each year.
- A week-long emergency summit of the G20 may be called at any time with the support of seven G20 members.
- Participating members are invited to host these summits on a rotational basis based off the same order the World Census Report uses to update daily, with a preference given to those members that have not previously hosted a G20 summit.
- G20 members may by majority vote decide to postpone an biannual summit by up to three months.
- Any region or organization may decline to attend or host the aforementioned summits.
Article 3: Censure
- By a two-thirds decision, the G20 may elect to censure an eligible member.
- A censured G20 member is barred till the end of the calendar year from exercising its voting rights in the G20 or attending or hosting G20 summits.
- The next eligible region, in terms of the criteria outlined in Section 1.1, shall be included as a G20 member, with full voting and hosting rights, in lieu of the censured member.
Article 4: Observer parties
- Any region or organization eligible to participate in the G20 as a full voting member may opt to attend any G20 summit instead as a non-voting observer.
- Other regions or organizations, not described in Article 4.1 or Article 3.2, may attend a G20 summit as a non-voting observer with the sponsorship and approval of three eligible member regions.
- In the event that more than one party has reasonable claim as the legitimate government of a G20 region at the start of a summit, all such parties will be invited to sit as non-voting observers to the summit unless the other participating regions elect by a two-thirds decision to recognize one of the parties as the official representative for the region in question.