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Bill: Jelbanian Economic and Trade Sanctions Resolution
Details
Submitted by[?]: Beluzian Workers Party
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: September 2478
Description[?]:
| The République Fédérée de Jelbania is currently the sole nation on Terra to practice slavery and the slave trade. It is the recommendation of the Foreign Office that the following action be taken: 1. All economic activity and trade be immediately suspended between Beluzia and the République Fédérée de Jelbania. 2. All financial accounts held by the Jelbanian government, its members, and its supporters, both foreign and domestic, shall be immediately seized by the Ministry of Finance. 3. All Beluzian ports be closed to all vessels flying the Jelbanian flag, and all ships bound from Beluzian ports to Jelbania have their cargoes seized by the Ministry of Industry and Trade; all aircraft registered to, departing from, or destined to Jelbania be denied use of Beluzian airspace; no goods produced or substantially transformed in Jelbania shall be allowed entry at land border points. 4. It shall be made a criminal offence to knowingly and deliberately sell or assist the sale of any person into slavery in Jelbania, return or allow the return of persons residing in Beluzia to Jelbania to be enslaved there, or to accept or hold in trust monies obtained, in whole or in part, from slavery and the slave trade in Jelbania. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:08:22, October 27, 2007 CET | From | Communist Party of Beluzia and Bailon | To | Debating the Jelbanian Economic and Trade Sanctions Resolution |
| Message | Of course, I agree with these sanctions, but how can the Liberal Party justify seizing private property and restricting free trade? |
| Date | 23:27:50, October 27, 2007 CET | From | Constitutional Monarchy Party | To | Debating the Jelbanian Economic and Trade Sanctions Resolution |
| Message | I will only allow it if Captain Barbossa is allowed to pillage the trade vessels. |
| Date | 06:13:21, October 28, 2007 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Jelbanian Economic and Trade Sanctions Resolution |
| Message | What is wrong w slavery? |
| Date | 15:53:46, October 29, 2007 CET | From | Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Jelbanian Economic and Trade Sanctions Resolution |
| Message | It is a form of unfair competition in the free market. slave labour undercuts wage labour. |
| Date | 16:48:35, October 29, 2007 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Jelbanian Economic and Trade Sanctions Resolution |
| Message | competition is always "unfair". try harder. |
| Date | 17:11:04, October 30, 2007 CET | From | Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Jelbanian Economic and Trade Sanctions Resolution |
| Message | competition has to be fair to be true competition - otherwise it is merely warfare |
| Date | 18:27:08, October 31, 2007 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Jelbanian Economic and Trade Sanctions Resolution |
| Message | Warfare is always competitive... unless Zog is involved! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 534 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 216 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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