Resolution to Establish Regional Safety Commissions

Sponsors: The United States, China, Pakistan, Germany, The United Kingdom, South Africa

1.The UN will establish regional safety commissions, to regulate, review, and recommend safety provisions for their member states. They will work with, but not answer to the IAEA. The superior power will be the regional commissions. They will be responsible for the following:

1. The establishment of regional nuclear safety schemes,

2. Regulations either through sanctions, or incentives depending on the regional safety commissions decision,

3. Working to reach a basic level of safety standards for their region.

4. There does not have to be limits on nuclear plants, it is based solely on the development of safety regulations overlooked by the regional commissions.

Concern over China's Regional Regulation Plan

An anonymous country has stated the regional regulation plan China is proposing is both worrying and flawed. The plan will only create additional instability and incohesiveness in nuclear policy and regulation. Not only does the plan give China too much regional power, the IAEA cannot step in if necessary.

US, China Lead Resolution on Nuclear Safety

Resolution proposed in the Nuclear Safety council which will allow for the UN to establish regional safety commissions, to regulate, review, and recommend safety provisions for their member states. They will work with but not answer to the IAEA.  The Superior power will be the regional commissions. They will be responsible for numerous securities including the establishment of regional nuclear safety schemes as well as regulations through sanctions or incentives. There will be no limit on nuclear plants and this will be based solely on the development of safety regulations overlooked by the regional commissions. These commissions will work to reach a basic level of safety standards for their region. Sponsoring nations include: the United States, China, Pakistan, Germany, the United Kingdom, and South Africa.  Caucuses continue, and the resolution will be voted on in the near future.

China Providing Aid to Australia

Australia has announced it is receiving help from China cleaning up and limiting the effects of the reactor meltdown, as per the regional alliance between the two countries.

Resolution Proposed for Regional Safety Commissions

The United States and China, along with Pakistan, Germany, The United Kingdom, and South Korea have reached a resolution for the United Nations to establish regional safety commissions. These commissions would "regulate, review, and recommend" the nuclear safety of separate regions. South Korea and other nations have noted that "to work with China and other nearby regions has cultural and geographical advantages". 

US Shut Out of Talks between China and Russia

Indonesia and Japan are concerned about ongoing talks between Russia and China on regional nuclear regulation. Russia and China are excluding the United States from the negotiations. Given China's significant investments in many developing nations, the influence it would have as a regional regulator of nuclear power, and the fact that China and Russia are both members of the UN Security Council, as well as how America is being kept out of the loop, it is understandable some nations are concerned.