2003 CGS Report on the UN Cloning Treaty Negotiations
        
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             | 11. 24. 2003
        
            Human Cloning, the United Nations, and Beyond
                    
                                    
                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                            
                              
    
  
  
    
  
          
  
      
    
            On November 6, 2003, after two years of debate and no substantive 
                  action, the United Nations voted to suspend until late 2005 
                  any further consideration of a French-German proposal for an 
                  international treaty to ban human cloning. 
                
  
The vote in the Legal (Sixth) Committee of the UN General Assembly 
                  was very close: 80 countries voted for the suspension, 79 wished 
                  to continue negotiations, 15 formally abstained, and 17 were 
                  not present. 
  What happened, and why? What are the implications for global 
                  governance of the new human genetic technologies? What is likely 
                  to happen next, and what can be done?
  The Original Proposal
  France and Germany initiated the cloning treaty process in 
                  September 2001. They limited their proposed ban to reproductive 
                  cloning because they recognized that a broader proposal - in 
                  particular, one that also banned research cloning - would not 
                  be able to attain the effective consensus required to successfully 
                  conclude a treaty within the UN structure. They believed that 
                  a treaty banning reproductive cloning would be a critically 
                  important contribution in itself, and would establish a precedent 
                  and structure...
 
 
  
 
    
    
  
   
                        
                                                                                
                 
                                                    
                            
                                  
    
  
  
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