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Vote Against GA resolution Protections During Territorial Transitions
Resolution Analysis
Overview
This resolution seeks to safeguard the rights of beings during territorial transitions. Specifically, the author ensures that, at least between member nations, citizens of both "ceding states" receive robust protections regarding their citizenship and rights in their "receiving state". Additionally, this resolution has provisions requiring both ceding states and receiving states to provide for the basic needs of citizens they are acquiring or who will be becoming a part of their nation.
Recommendation
This resolution contains several flaws. First, it is clear that the common opt-out in this resolution of a "request" is a guise for states to deny critical or even inadequate services. Second, we take issue with clause 5's potential quagmire. In allowing states to temporarily refuse to take on their own citizens within their territory even if basic needs will be overwhelmed, it possibly does something neutral, but by not defining what "suitable, temporary measures" might mean, it undermines the entire potential response. Lastly, clauses 6 and 7 are, in effect, substantial detriments to the principle of national sovereignty and could create tension based on national origin, as they force member states to potentially grant rights to new citizens who hail from another state that are above and beyond what previously established citizens enjoy.
For the above reasons, the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommends a vote Against the General Assembly Resolution at vote, "Protections During Territorial Transitions".
