The following resolutions were proposed by Action for UN Renewal members and passed at the 2006 UNA-UK Conference in Durham 21-23 April 2006.
Resolution F. - UK Foreign Policy - Action For UN Renewal
“After two world wars which twice in a lifetime had “brought untold sorrow to mankind”, and after the United Nations Charter pledged “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war”, we are on the cycle of violence once again.
No longer are we genuinely seeking to rescue independent nations from occupation but are actively taking part in similar illegal military aggression. No United Nations Security Council resolution was found to permit the invasion of Iraq in 2003, not was Afghanistan named in the calling for action after 9/11.
This conference calls on the British government to end its support for the illegal actions of the US government at once and to change its aggressive foreign policy to one of co-operation and respect for international law”.
The resolution was passed in plenary session with one person voting against.
Resolution G - Armaments -
H. Evans, J. Addington, V. Mehta, C. Langdon, A.Williams, A. Moore
Before the Hague Peace Conference in 1899 the Russian Foreign Secretary, Count Muraviev said; "The maintenance of a general peace and a possible reduction of the excessive armaments ... are in the present world situation an ideal towards which the endeavours of all governments must be directed ... "
Article 8 of the League of Nations Covenant and 26 of the UN Charter, dealt with arms reduction. The League called for "... the reduction of national armaments to the lowest point consistent with national safety and the enforcement by common action of international obligations".
Article 26 of the UN Charter calls for the Security Council to formulate "… plans for the establishment of a system for the regulation of Armaments". This was "in order to promote the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion for armaments of the world’s human and economic resources".
This UNA Conference demands that after a century of delay the British Government puts the reduction of arms and the ending of the pernicious system of arms sales at the top of its agenda.
Resolution A - A World Civil Society Union UNGA-Link UK
Noting that the World Summit 2005
Outcome Document ignored the
Secretary-General's proposal for revitalising the UN General Assembly by
"establishing mechanisms enabling the Assembly to engage fully and
systematically with civil society" [In Larger Freedom, para 162]
Regretting that the UN has not
implemented proposals in the Cardoso Report
for recognition of non-state contributions to General Assembly
processes [para 64-67],
Concluding that civil society organisations must take the initiative to
fill the democratic deficit and ensure their expertise is available to
the General Assembly and other UN fora;
Urges the Board to advocate the formation of a transparent and
accountable
World Civil Society Union which could seek observer status at the UN
General Assembly (like the Inter-Parliamentary Union)
And Requests the Board to urge WFUNA, and the Union of
International Associations (UIA) to convene a meeting with representatives
of other major international CSOs in order to initiate the proposed Union.