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The Assembly also adopted a text concerning “Safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel” (document A/80/L.18) by a recorded vote of 153 in favour to 1 against (United States) with 6 abstentions (Burundi, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Fiji, Israel, Papua New Guinea, Russian Federation).
Also relevant,
However, those amendments were not withdrawn. The representative of the United States proposed four amendments “to protect the original purpose of this resolution from ideological agendas”. Rejecting terminology around sexual and reproductive healthcare, she said this language carries “highly controversial meanings conflating this term with notions of abortion, LGBTQ and other sexual rights”. Further, the UN has gone “wildly off-track exaggerating climate change into the world’s greatest threat”, she said, adding that her delegation is proposing amendments to preambular paragraphs 4 and 15 to address the inappropriate references to climate change.
Omnibus Humanitarian Text Withdrawn after Decades of General Assembly Consensus as Delegates Surmount Divisions to Adopt 3 Texts on Aid Personnel, Disaster Response | UN Meetings Coverage and Press Releases
As the General Assembly took up a series of resolutions regarding humanitarian and disaster relief assistance, the annual omnibus text on strengthening the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance was withdrawn — after three decades of consensus adoption — as delegates expressed divisions about the role of the UN in humanitarian work, and what that work should include.
The follow-up
Went on a cabin trip last weekend, with a 2010-something corolla rental.
“Oh neat, no spare tire so we can use the the tire well for dry food – how practical!”
In retrospect, I would have taken the spare tire.
okay who found the gravity gun
cool, they got the subwoofer add-on
Summers here can get a get a bit hot too – we had a few weeks last year where the temps barely dipped under 25c at all, even at night.
That, coupled with an apartment in a brick building facing the sun, made to hold as much heat as possible, means next to no sleep :<
Given a lifespan of 90 years (“the time”) that’s about 0.3 zeptosecond accuracy, or twice the lifetime of the Higgs Boson, which is impressive
