Updating Foreign Policy #2
Préambule
WHEREAS it is necessary and desirable to clarify and update Green Party foreign policy and that recent changes to official Green Party foreign and defence policy (2006 – 2010) have left a patch work of historical policy sections that may be contradictory or confusing.
Dispositif
BE IT RESOLVED that the 1988 Peace and Security policy section be repealed in its entirety.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that elected Green MPs will actively work to establish Canada as a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone, closing all ports and air strips to nuclear armed weapons carriers, excepting for emergency landings, work to establish additional Nuclear Weapons Free Zones in Europe, Middle East, the Arctic, and actively work to assist in strengthening and full ratification of existing NWFZ treaties.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Canadian Greens reaffirm our historic policy to establish a Ministry of Peace and Security and endorse the work of Canadian civil society organizations dedicated to accomplishing this goal.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that MPs will work to cease weapons research development, excepting only those designed for peacekeeping purposes and tasked to accomplish those missions in diverse global environments and cease any participation in biological and chemical weapons research.
Contexte
The 1988 Peace and Security policy section consists of 15 clauses. The recent 2006 convention repeal of past military spending policies, 2010 NATO policy revision, recognition of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) have left a confusing patchwork series of policies. The wording of the 1988 section does not allow for the efficient repeal of single clauses while also clarifying policy that still stands with policy that has been repealed. The Green Party of Canada has grown immensely since 2004 and it has become clear that there should be reconciliation between the aspirations and values of the original Green membership and the new GPC membership. It is time for the GPC membership to take the time to re-examine its core values and the interpretation of those values in order to produce a credible vision and foreign policy. This policy proposal seeks to respectfully balance and reconcile historic commitments to global security through peace building neutrality and the manner in which we achieve that commitment in the 21st century, taking into account dramatic global changes over the last 23 years. The Green Party is being taken more seriously and now needs to translate policy into credible, economically realistic policy positions and election platforms. The 1988 policy section is available for review in the Green Policy Book.
NWFZ Treaties already established.
Source: http://www.un.org/disarmament/WMD/Nuclear/NWFZ.shtml:
•Treaty of Tlatelolco —Latin America and the Caribbean
•Treaty of Rarotonga — South Pacific
•Treaty of Bangkok —Southeast Asia
•Treaty of Pelindaba — African Continent
•Treaty of Semipalatinsk — Central Asia
Code
Type de résolution
Auteur
Commentaire officiel du parti
Préambule
WHEREAS it is necessary and desirable to clarify and update Green Party foreign policy and that recent changes to official Green Party foreign and defence policy (2006 – 2010) have left a patch work of historical policy sections that may be contradictory or confusing.
Dispositif
BE IT RESOLVED that the 1988 Peace and Security policy section be repealed in its entirety.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that elected Green MPs will actively work to establish Canada as a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone, closing all ports and air strips to nuclear armed weapons carriers, excepting for emergency landings, work to establish additional Nuclear Weapons Free Zones in Europe, Middle East, the Arctic, and actively work to assist in strengthening and full ratification of existing NWFZ treaties.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Canadian Greens reaffirm our historic policy to establish a Ministry of Peace and Security and endorse the work of Canadian civil society organizations dedicated to accomplishing this goal.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that MPs will work to cease weapons research development, excepting only those designed for peacekeeping purposes and tasked to accomplish those missions in diverse global environments and cease any participation in biological and chemical weapons research.
Commanditaires
Contexte
The 1988 Peace and Security policy section consists of 15 clauses. The recent 2006 convention repeal of past military spending policies, 2010 NATO policy revision, recognition of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) have left a confusing patchwork series of policies. The wording of the 1988 section does not allow for the efficient repeal of single clauses while also clarifying policy that still stands with policy that has been repealed. The Green Party of Canada has grown immensely since 2004 and it has become clear that there should be reconciliation between the aspirations and values of the original Green membership and the new GPC membership. It is time for the GPC membership to take the time to re-examine its core values and the interpretation of those values in order to produce a credible vision and foreign policy. This policy proposal seeks to respectfully balance and reconcile historic commitments to global security through peace building neutrality and the manner in which we achieve that commitment in the 21st century, taking into account dramatic global changes over the last 23 years. The Green Party is being taken more seriously and now needs to translate policy into credible, economically realistic policy positions and election platforms. The 1988 policy section is available for review in the Green Policy Book.
NWFZ Treaties already established.
Source: http://www.un.org/disarmament/WMD/Nuclear/NWFZ.shtml:
•Treaty of Tlatelolco —Latin America and the Caribbean
•Treaty of Rarotonga — South Pacific
•Treaty of Bangkok —Southeast Asia
•Treaty of Pelindaba — African Continent
•Treaty of Semipalatinsk — Central Asia
Commentaire officiel du parti