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Vote Against GA resolution Repeal: "Minimum Standard of Living Act"
Resolution Analysis
Overview
This proposal seeks to repeal "Minimum Standard of Living Act", which requires member states to offer some minimum levels of access to food and water, clothing, housing, sanitation, utilities, and some transit subject to affordability rules in (5)(b). This repeal proposal also cites several perceived "flaws", such as linking the provision of services to "state monopolies", provisions for "undocumented immigrants", "criminals" and the "unemployed". It also criticized the resolution for making exceptions for economic crises or "predictable national disasters".
Recommendation
We are unconvinced by the premise of the repeal, which criticises potentially valid grounds for exemptions to the "minimum" standard of living. Firstly, the proposal attributes a country's failure to adequately prepare for the most "predictable" of events (eg. tropical storm during monsoon season) to "government mismanagement", which may not be correct in the case of less developed nations who do not have the economic means to fully mitigate the impacts of such events. We also disagree with the claim that GA#344 promotes "anti-competitive state-sponsored monopolies", believing that such monopolies may be essential in providing basic services in the country's context.
We believe that the current resolution only mandates a minimum requirement for all member states, and that nations with significant resources at their disposal have no reasons not to enhance the basic services provided to their citizens. It is also worth noting that the purported replacement has flaws on its own, and based on its current wording, we cannot bring ourselves to support that as a replacement of this proposal.
For the above reasons, the Ministry recommends a vote Against the General Assembly resolution at vote, Repeal "Minimum Standard of Living Act", in hopes that we will get a potentially more viable repeal & replacement for the future.
This IFV Recommendation was written in collaboration with our World Assembly Legislative League partners.
