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Vote Against GA resolution Reducing Natural Disease Reservoirs


General Assembly Vote Recommendation

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Resolution at Vote: Reducing Natural Disease Reservoirs
Vote Recommendation: Against

Resolution Analysis
Overview
This resolution seeks to identify, mitigate the spread of, and eventually eradicate zoonotic diseases or "disease[s] which is known to be transmitted from a non-sapient being to a sapient being and poses a substantial risk to the health or welfare of a sapient species, or of sapient populations as a whole...". To do this, the resolution tasks member states to keep record of zoonotic diseases' "reservoir species" and to report those to the WA, along with several steps meant to reduce the spread of zoonotic diseases (including restrictions on the freedom of travel of infected individuals).

Recommendation
Our main issue with this resolution is that it is splitting hairs with two preceding resolutions: GA#389, "Rights of the Quarantined" and GA#518, "Reducing Disease Vectors". In particular, the differential with GA#518 is minor, largely with regards to carriers and not just transmitters. The move regarding vaccines for animal husbandry, while theoretically beneficial, is not commonly implemented on commercial grounds and the usual response (humane extermination) is usually adopted instead.

For the above reasons, the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommends a vote Against the General Assembly Resolution at vote, "Reducing Natural Disease Reservoirs".

This IFV Recommendation was written in collaboration with our World Assembly Legislative League partners.

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