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The United Nations is the world’s foremost international organization.  In 2001 France and Germany proposed a binding UN treaty calling for a prohibition on human reproductive cloning, and an early procedural vote suggested unanimous support for this. Subsequently, a significant number of countries expressed opposition to banning reproductive cloning without simultaneously banning research cloning. This led to extended controversy, and the debate became, essentially, a debate over the acceptability of research cloning. By 2003 it became clear that a consensus concerning this topic could not be achieved.  In 2005 a non-binding Declaration implying opposition to research cloning was brought to a vote. It received a plurality of votes (46%), which under UN rules makes it the official UN position.  But the fact that the Declaration was non-binding, and that 36% of UN member countries abstained or were absent from the vote, reduces its significance.  

== Offsite links ==

* [http://www.un.org/law/cloning/ United Nations Declaration on Human Cloning]
* [http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=338 The United Nations Human Cloning Treaty Debate, 2000-2005]
* George J. Annas, Lori B. Andrews, Rosario M. Isasi, "[http://geneticsandsociety.org/downloads/2002_ajlm_annasetal.pdf Protecting the Endangered Human: Toward an International Treaty Prohibiting Cloning and Inheritable Alterations]," ''American Journal of Law and Medicine'' v. 28 (2002): 151-178

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