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Bill: Beluzian waters closed to Rutanian vessels
Details
Submitted by[?]: Catholic Workers Movement
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: March 2091
Description[?]:
| Whereas Rutania has reserved the right to arms itself with nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, and Whereas these weapson of mass destruction pose a potential threat, Resolved that Rutanian vessles shall not be permitted entry into Beluzian territorial waters, pending an explanation of their WMD programme. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:01:14, August 03, 2005 CET | From | Catholic Workers Movement | To | Debating the Beluzian waters closed to Rutanian vessels |
| Message | As suggested by two parties in the "coral reef" debate. |
| Date | 23:21:27, August 03, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Beluzian waters closed to Rutanian vessels |
| Message | W concur. We must have an explaination why a pacifist nation is arming itself with weapons when nearly all its neighbours have no WMDs. |
| Date | 02:14:45, August 04, 2005 CET | From | Humanism-Scientism Collusion | To | Debating the Beluzian waters closed to Rutanian vessels |
| Message | Hear, hear. |
| Date | 13:52:05, August 04, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Beluzian waters closed to Rutanian vessels |
| Message | Move this to a vote, we have a majority and still those in Bozarburg have not commented! |
| Date | 22:23:32, August 04, 2005 CET | From |  RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Beluzian waters closed to Rutanian vessels |
| Message | I'd like to inform you that my party opposed the decision to re-arm and that it will immediately disarm again once a majority in support of disarmament is reached. We believe however that this embargo goes a little bit too far, we feel that Rutanian vessels should still have the right of innocent passage (so no military ships). The policy of Steve Armstrong and the RSDP has always been a pacifist policy, but apparantly the new Government is more aggressive. |
| Date | 23:28:49, August 04, 2005 CET | From | Catholic Workers Movement | To | Debating the Beluzian waters closed to Rutanian vessels |
| Message | It is too late to change the description, but it is good to hear these words from the former Rutanian foreign minister. We hope he will be able to sway his colleagues in Rutania. |
| Date | 23:57:35, August 04, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Beluzian waters closed to Rutanian vessels |
| Message | Unfortunately that is all they are "good words" because until our honourable friend in the RSDP gets a landslide it looks like the present governing parties will maintain an advantage. However we would give our thanks the RSDP for beginning communication and would urge them to urge their colleagues to do the same. |
| Date | 00:15:34, August 05, 2005 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Beluzian waters closed to Rutanian vessels |
| Message | Greetings Beluzia, We find this infringement of our rights to govern our nation how we see fit to be a gross mistake on your part as you have no right to interfere with the sovereignty of Rutania. We maintain a nuclear deterrant for precisely that reason, its a deterrant, we also hold a deterrant so that should a conflict arise between the Enralonian Empire and the Socialist Commonwealth of New Endralon then we would be able to defend ourselves should the conflict spread to more nations. The holding of nuclear weapons is the right every country has and it is their decision as to whether they want to hold one or not. Nuclear weapons have been proven to be one of the best ways at preventing a full scale war due to the threat of mutually assured destruction. We find your attempts to influence our national policy to be infringing our sovereignty as a nation and assure you that the arming of our nation with nuclear weapons is not an aggressive act but a defensive act, we are ensuring that no nation attacks us. We would fully support you if your nation wanted to maintain a nuclear arsenal as that is YOUR right as a nation to do so. With respects to the Chemical and Biological weapons act, that was to allow research into the area in many fields as under the old law it was banned so we allowed it. In that bill we specifically said "We reserve the right to store those weapons but that we would not do so. Our weapons pose no threat to your nation and we seek that you accept this. We are trying to come together on a use of WMD act that would restrict their use and require both parliamentary approval and HoS approval along with others possibly. We respectfully ask that you open up your waters to Rutanian vessels and not place any more restrictions on the trade of Rutania. Bruce Dickinson Foreign Affairs Minister Federated States of Rutania |
| Date | 11:13:58, August 05, 2005 CET | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Beluzian waters closed to Rutanian vessels |
| Message | "With respects to the Chemical and Biological weapons act, that was to allow research into the area in many fields as under the old law it was banned so we allowed it. In that bill we specifically said "We reserve the right to store those weapons but that we would not do so." We'd like to respectfully inform the honourable Foreign Minister that specimens for research do not exactly fall under the term "weapons". |
| Date | 11:34:33, August 05, 2005 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Beluzian waters closed to Rutanian vessels |
| Message | Well we would respectfully inform the RSDP that this was not known at the time and that clarification is needed from the moderators. |
| Date | 18:11:55, August 05, 2005 CET | From | Catholic Workers Movement | To | Debating the Beluzian waters closed to Rutanian vessels |
| Message | In response to: "We respectfully ask that you open up your waters to Rutanian vessels and not place any more restrictions on the trade of Rutania." We respectfully ask that we be given some guarantee that Rutanian vessels will not transport weapons of mass destruction into Beluzian waters. |
| Date | 20:48:22, August 05, 2005 CET | From | Liberal Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Beluzian waters closed to Rutanian vessels |
| Message | All this is going to do is harm your own trade. Bar us from your waters if you wish - you're shooting yourselves in the collective foot. |
| Date | 22:45:08, August 05, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Beluzian waters closed to Rutanian vessels |
| Message | We don't need the trade of your nation. You're a footnote on the political map of the world! |
| Date | 22:47:00, August 05, 2005 CET | From | Liberal Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Beluzian waters closed to Rutanian vessels |
| Message | Actually all of the nations are pretty much the same in terms of power, economy and size. So whatever. |
| Date | 15:16:54, August 18, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Beluzian waters closed to Rutanian vessels |
| Message | OOC: What sort of half assed idiot puts nukes on a merchant vessel? I'd be glad to put forward a motion in my parliament assuring that nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction are not carried by our merchant vessels through Beluzian waters. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 228 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 57 |
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