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The current Ormean constitution prohibits national membership in the World Assembly because several binding resolutions override national law.On the other hand, the Ormean people have begun to move away from our typical isolationist attitudes.

His Imperial Highness, Vilhelmo la Unua, has requested that I, Johano Smeraldadomo, the Ormean Minister of External Affairs, consult with my peers and conduct a study before he designates a special committee to craft a consitutional amendment to repeal the WA membership prohibition clause.

HIH Vilhelmo would like to know if WA membership has severely affected your lawmakers and regulators from enforcing national priorities where they conflict with WA resolutions.

An example of an objectionable WA provision is Resolution 34, Section 7 which:
- PROHIBITS nations from barring WA member state commercial transports in compliance with ITSC regulations from operating in their airspace, territory or territorial waters, or preventing such from docking, landing, or otherwise embarking/disembarking passengers & loading/unloading freight,
- a) Nations are permitted to introduce reasonable requirements of prior notification and authorisation, but such are not to be refused on the grounds of the nation of the transport’s origin
- b) Nations may refuse entry &c., if there are necessary practical reasons for doing so, such as limited capacity or quarantine, or in times of war or economic sanctions.

Ormean legal experts have interpreted this clause to mean that Ormea would not be able to prohibit overflights by highly pollutive aircraft (in contravention to Ormean environmental law) and must allow passenger and cargo to disembark at ports with no provision for the regulation of cargo movements, immigration, or quarantine. In other words, this provision appears to require a border completely porous to other WA nations.

Your assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Johano de la Smeraldadomo,
Prince in the Emerald House of Ormea,
7th in line for the Emerald Collars of Ormea,
in my capacity as the High Minister of the Exterior

on behalf of

HIH Vilhelmo la Unua,
Emperor of Ormea,
King of the Several Gemstone Mountain States,
Grand Duke of Cross Island,
Grand Duke of the Ormean Border Regions,
Lord Protector of the Ormean People and Environment,
First Bearer of the Emerald Collar of Ormea,
Custodian in Perpetuity of the Sapphire Collar of Ormea,
Custodian in Perpetuity of the Ruby Collar of Ormea