Post by Markanite on May 5, 2011 2:28:58 GMT -5
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Freedom of Arms Trade
A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.
A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.
Category: Free Trade
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Luthiland
Description: RECOGNIZING that the arms industry is vital to the national security of every nation and may greatly effect the outcome of a wars, conflicts, resistance movements or other military action and may in some cases act as a deterrent to such actions.
AND OBSERVING that manufacture, sale, trade and/or transportation of arms is vital to the economic development of many nations and that military aid to belligerent nations my be used as a political tool to foster alliances and exert international power, The World Assembly mandates as follows:
Article I
DEFINES,
(i) Arms or weapons as any device manufactured for the sole purpose of causing harm to a living being or physical property, including but not limited to any type of gun, blade-weapon, cannon, explosive substance, missile, projectile, bomb, ammunition, nuclear, biological or chemical weapon, military aircraft, armored vehicle or naval vessel not specifically banned by this body.
(ii) Manufacture as the creation, assembly, forging or production of arms or weapons.
(iii) Sale as transfer of weapons for monetary gain.
(iv) Trade as transfer of weapons in exchange for goods or services other than money.
(v) Lending as transfer of weapons with a reasonable expectation to receive them back upon request or suitable compensation for weapons not returned.
(vi) Supplying as transfer of weapons with no reasonable expectation of their return nor any financial or other gain from the transfer.
(vii) Transportation as the shipment or moving of arms from one location to another.
Article II
MANDATES,
(i) There shall be no limitations placed on the manufacture, sale, trade, transportation, lending or supplying of any type of weapon between the governments of any nation by the World Assembly, unless restricted by prior legislation.
(ii) Any nation may sell, trade, lend, supply or transport arms to the government of any nation it sees fit without legal restriction unless prohibited by prior legislation.
(iii) No nation that is not a party to a conflict may interfere with the delivery of arms to any participant of said conflict unless said delivery shall enter or pass through it’s territorial waters, lands or air space.
(iv) Authority to restrict the sale, manufacture, trade, transportation, lending or supplying of weapons within a nation’s borders is reserved to the individual nations.
Article III
EXCLUDES,
(i) This resolution in no way insures or guarantees the safe passage of any vehicle carrying arms in or through belligerent lands, waters or air space.
(ii) No weapon expressly banned by the World Assembly may be given legal protection under this resolution;
(iii) This resolution excludes arms sales, trades, lending, supply or transport to privateers, pirates, terrorists, groups that are engaged in the act of genocide or ethnic cleansing, or any other group excluded by previous legislation.
(iv) This resolution in no way negates or prohibits multi-party treaties between any nations that would permit or limit the use, production, sale, lending, supplying or trade of weapons.
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