[extropy-chat] UN Delays Decision on Human Cloning

[Alfio Puglisi]

Isn't it ironic that we have to thank Iran for this? Who where the 79
countries that voted against?

Ciao,
Alfio

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, natashavita at earthlink.net wrote:

>Here's some good news -
>
>"November 6, 2003; UNITED NATIONS, New York City (AP and CNN) -- The United
>Nations voted narrowly Thursday to delay for two years any consideration of
>a treaty to ban human cloning, an issue that has left the world body
>bitterly divided.  Facing rival resolutions on a total ban or a partial
>ban, the General Assembly's legal committee voted 80-79 to accept a motion
>introduced by Iran on behalf of the 57 Islamic nations to postpone U.N.
>action on the issue. Fifteen countries abstained."
>
>**Now if we could have the gates open for theraputic clonging, I'd be
>really happy.
>
>Natasha
>
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------
>mail2web - Check your email from the web at
>http://mail2web.com/ .
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>extropy-chat mailing list
>extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat
>