GA #279
Also, the resolution is easily flaunted:
(f) They are legitimately determined to be mentally unable to make the decision to travel of their own accord,
what does legitimately mean? Can I legally determine my entire country to be mentally disabled?
The World Assembly,
COGNIZANT of the individual rights of each member-state to regulate its own immigration and emigration policies,
CONCERNED that the resolution inappropriately restricts each member-state's ability to control their own sovereign affairs and policy, including during potential times of war, when a person's departure or emigration may not be otherwise illegal but nonetheless significantly damaging to the nation's military affairs, such as the emigration of high-ranking arms manufacturing executives during times of armed conflict, which may lead to decreased productivity, morale, or other consequences,
CONCERNED that the resolution may passively encourage the desertion of a member-state's civil liabilities or suits, de-legitimizing the efficacy of each member-state's judiciary, especially in cases where said member-state has no leverage over persons seeking to avoid civil liabilities and suits, such as the nonexistence of property to be impounded, or when contempt of court is not a criminal offense,
ACKNOWLEDGING that, in combination with General Assembly Resolution 76, which "mandates that all citizens carry a Passport issued by a relevant nation in which they hold citizenship or other nationality status, when travelling abroad...," Resolution 279, by prohibiting governments from banning emigration, forces nation-states to issue passports to all citizens,
AFFIRMING that member-states have certain sovereign freedoms, including the issuance of passports, a power granted solely to executive functionaries,
AFFIRMING that the freedom to issue and revoke passports is a sovereign exercise of a nation's executive discretion,
ACKNOWLEDGING that member-states cannot deny any person a passport under the Act, and that improperly or incompletely filling out a passport application does not constitute a crime and therefore is not subject to any exemption provided by the Act,
ACKNOWLEDGING that therefore the compulsion of member-states to accept all passport applications, even those otherwise incorrectly or fraudulently submitted, is in violation of the sovereign rights of each and every member-state, and gravely jeopardizes international transportation security, if immigration officials cannot even determine whether the information presented on the passport is genuine,
RESOLVING that the target legislation improperly violates national sovereignty, harms national security, undermines principles of executive discretion, damages transportation safety, and jeopardizes the legitimacy of judicial systems,
Hereby repeals General Assembly Resolution 279.