Repeal: “Volcanic Activity Convention”

General Assembly Resolution #565 “Volcanic Activity Convention” (Category: Regulation; Area of Effect: Safety) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
The World Assembly,
Believing that, with the current risk of those previously thought as dead mysteriously awakening, it is indeed an important goal to prevent more people from dying and potentially returning in a zombified form, something which the resolution has contributed to via efforts to ensure that member nations are protected from the often-deadly dangers of volcanic activity; yet
Finding that the resolution has become superfluous since its passage, as “Disaster Precautions and Responses” already ensures that precautions are taken to ensure that member nations are protected from volcanic activity, as well as other disasters, thus eliminating the need for the “Volcanic Activity Convention”,
Observing that even the more specific areas of disaster preparedness that the resolution attempts to address – including “cooperation between member nations [in] handling disasters like multinational volcanic activity” – are covered by other existing resolutions;

  • The mandates of “Emergency Broadcasting Standards” adequately cover communication between nations affected by a multinational disaster;

  • “Humanitarian Aid Coordination” also ensures the distribution of humanitarian aid to nations in need of the same, such as those victim of volcanic activity or needing to address an outbreak of the undead;

Haunted too by exceedingly unclear and ambiguous wording in many mandates of the resolution, such as Section 2a.iii, which mandates that member nations at risk of volcanic activity reverse damage from recent volcanic activity “within reason”; and Section 2a.ii, which requires member nations at such risk to distribute resources deemed “relevant” and “necessary”; thus both opening the doors to exploitation of the resolution’s mandates, and making bona fide attempts at compliance with the resolution’s spirit unclear,
Deducing that the resolution is therefore no longer necessary to mitigate the dangers of volcanic activity, while also being ultimately ineffectual in many of its efforts, meaning that there is no real reason to keep the resolution standing,
Repeals the “Volcanic Activity Convention”.

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This resolution is now up for vote.

Bai Lung will vote FOR.

“Repeal “Volcanic Activity Convention”” was defeated 10,302 votes to 5,859.