Draft Resolution 6

Context: This resolution was written by my brother for a junior conference. He ended up winning 'Best Delegate' despite it being his first conference.

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Indonesia’s Resolution To Combat The Sale Of Weapons

Committee Name: General Assembly - 4

Agenda: Discussing The Role Of The Sale Of Weapons To War-Afflicted Countries

Author: The Republic Of Indonesia

Sponsors: The United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland; The State Of Qatar; Malaysia; People’s Republic of China; The Syrian Arab Republic; Islamic Republic of Iran; The Arab Republic of Egypt

Signatories: The State Of Israel; The United States of America; The Commonwealth of Australia

General Assembly – 4,

Noting with regret the minimal effectiveness of the Arms Trade Treaty in taming the growth of the sale of weapons which instead has had the opposite effect and strengthened the international arms trade to exponential heights,

Deeply disturbed with the rise in brutality of major conflicts and the exponential increase in the number of human casualties and unrestrained acts of violence in connection to armed conflicts due to the unlimited sale of weapons,

Emphasizing the need to tighten the restrictions and limits placed on the sales of weapons to conflict-stricken nations and the most urgent need to make nations strictly adhere to the various treaties and protocol that already exist in place such as the Geneva Protocol and the Arms Trade Treaty,

Noting with deep concern and condemning the lack of unity between nations on this issue due to political differences and geopolitical barriers and encouraging all countries on both sides of the conflict to negotiate and come up with a diplomatic solution to the sale of arms to war-afflicted countries,

Taking into account all nations/political entities who are strongly opposed to the limitation of the sale of weapons due to monetary reasons/inter-national (potential) conflicts,

1)    Encourages all member nations of the United Nations to:

a)     Sign and ratify the Arms Trade Treaty,

b)    Observe, with the highest degree of strictness, all arms trade related treaties and agreement such as the Geneva Protocol, the Arms Trade Treaty and likewise and also,

1)    Arrange a diplomatic solution to fix all loopholes in such agreements in order to tighten the reins on the arms trade industry,

2)    Classify extremely lethal weapons (such as nuclear weapons and killer robots) under a list which is to be blacklisted in the global market and branded as non-purchasable,

3)    Impose tight sanctions on terror-regimes like North Korea who are dealing in dangerous and lethal weapons and weapons-manufacturing processes to be sold to war afflicted nations;

2)    Calls upon major stakeholders in the sale of arms (with a special emphasis on the sale of weapons to war afflicted countries) to comply with the following measures:

a)     Allow non-governmental organisations such as Amnesty International to have an active say in their respective countries and boycott certain weapons sales which they deem harmful to humanity and which could have devastating repercussions for generations to come,

b)    Implement a new policy within member states pertaining to the sale of weapons to war-affected countries (which is binding to all member nations) that [NOTE: Weak countries who are at the threat of war by other nations are to be allowed to maintain their weapons on a case-by-case examination],

1)    Reduces the sale of the total global arms trade by 2% per annum till the year 2035,

2)    Reduces the sale of the classified lethal weapons (Clause 1, Section B, Part 2) by 3% per annum and to completely eradicate them by 2050,

3)    Reduces the sale of areal weapons by the following amounts,

a)     All nuclear missiles are to be banned in conflicts in the future,

b)    All drones are to be banned in conflicts in the future (unless they are spy drones);

3)    Encourages the resolution of all armed conflicts as a grass-roots solution to the issue of the sale of weapons to war afflicted countries in the following ways:

a)     Develop strong resolution-building bodies within governments that are willing to negotiate peace at all terms and look for a viable solution to the conflict at hand,

b)    Supporting diplomatic initiatives from other countries who wish to see an end to the conflict and to open dialogue and peaceful discussion with both the aggressors at hand,

c)     Encourage more civilian, United Nations and NGO’s-related action in the resolution of the conflicts in order to have more consensus on the issue and to resolve the conflicts with no unfair advantages to either side,

d)    Criminalizing (internationally) all types of armed conflicts, whether it be civil wars, terrorist insurgencies or political sectarianist violence and severely punish all offenders involved in such crimes against humanity;

4)    Further recommends all nations who are involved in the sale and purchase of weapons to war afflicted nations to:

a)     Monitor and tighten control of the sale of weapons in general,

b)    Reduce the potential lethality of the weapons that are being purchased, with a special emphasis on limiting the sales and transfers of cluster bombs, anti-personnel landmines, nuclear weapons, and chemical weapons,

c)     Ensure transparency and accountability from both suppliers and retailers of weapons to war afflicted nations [with a special emphasis on WMD’s (Weapons of Mass Destruction)] pertaining to information regarding the identity of the customers, the type of governments who rule in such countries, the number of weapons being sold, their potential uses, and in which conflicts they would be used in.