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Bill: chemical and biological warfare prohibtion
Details
Submitted by[?]: Representative Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: July 2129
Description[?]:
| Likatonia will not develop, stockpile or use chemical or biological weapons. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning biological and chemical weaponry.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to develop, construct and store biological and chemical weapons.
Current: The nation reserves the right to develop, construct and store biological and chemical weapons.
Proposed: The nation shall never develop, purchase or store biological or chemical weaponry.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 06:41:55, October 19, 2005 CET | From | Representative Party | To | Debating the chemical and biological warfare prohibtion |
| Message | We should never develop or use these terrible weapons. The use of these weapons could devastate civilian communities and the develpoment and storage of such weapons could have serious consequences for the environment and the health of our own citizens if there was a failure in the containment of the weaponised agents. This law will prove to the world our good intentions and show that we are willing to take the steps needed to make the world a safer place. |
| Date | 07:05:16, October 19, 2005 CET | From | Front for State Prosperity | To | Debating the chemical and biological warfare prohibtion |
| Message | We should research countermeasures if we aren't going to develop these weapons. We wouldn't support a bill that also disallowed research. |
| Date | 14:14:23, October 19, 2005 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the chemical and biological warfare prohibtion |
| Message | As long as we live in am imperfect world, we need to keep our options open as to responses to agression. We wish it were possible to support this bill, but we cannot. |
| Date | 16:16:16, October 19, 2005 CET | From | Front for State Prosperity | To | Debating the chemical and biological warfare prohibtion |
| Message | RLP: What would you think if it had been a proposal to sell off and/or destroy our current stocks while switching the funding into researching countermeasures to avoid the necessity of them? |
| Date | 16:42:12, October 19, 2005 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the chemical and biological warfare prohibtion |
| Message | Unfortunately, we feel that possesion of these stockpiles is necessary to deter agression against us. |
| Date | 20:27:12, October 19, 2005 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the chemical and biological warfare prohibtion |
| Message | The AAP cannot support legislation that disarms the nation... especially in light of some of our more 'volatile' neighbours. |
| Date | 14:45:56, October 20, 2005 CET | From | Liberal Party for Equality | To | Debating the chemical and biological warfare prohibtion |
| Message | I am glad to see this country finally has another party in favour of biochemical disarmament! the last time i brought this up I was the only yes vote. This is something the LPE feels very strongly about and will support with pride. |
| Date | 06:45:43, October 21, 2005 CET | From | Representative Party | To | Debating the chemical and biological warfare prohibtion |
| Message | This law will not prevent us from researching medicines that could be used to treat diseases that could be used as bilogical weapons, but it will prevent us from developing technologies that deliberately spread deadly diseases amongst the human population. Our scientists will also be able to research antidotes to poisonous chemicals. They will only be prevented from develpoing weapons using these chemicals or storing them in quantities needed to produce an effective weapon. So we will still be able to develop countermeasures to chemical and biological warfare. |
| Date | 06:45:59, October 21, 2005 CET | From | Representative Party | To | Debating the chemical and biological warfare prohibtion |
| Message | moving to vote |
| Date | 16:08:49, October 21, 2005 CET | From | Front for State Prosperity | To | Debating the chemical and biological warfare prohibtion |
| Message | We feel that it does ban countermeasure research, or it at least does not do enough to encourage it. However, we'll support this as better than the current situation. NBC weapons are unnecessary, ineffective, extremely expensive, and bad for our international image and trade. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 159 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 341 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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