United Nations Emergency Session
Thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean into the other end of the North American continent, it was business as usual in New York, if not for the presence of heavily armed police and truckloads of New York Army National Guard patrolling the busy areas as both NYPD, NYSP, and Air National Guard helicopters flew over the city. Such sites were seen in other major cities across America. It had been only roughly 48 hours since the outbreak began in South Korea yet almost all countries have taken up drastic measures.
In the United Nations General Headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, representatives and delegates of the UN member countries gathered in the General Assembly Hall to discuss the possibility of enforcing a naval quarantine and a no-fly zone over the Korean peninsula. Roughly 90% of the members voted in favor of a quarantine, including the South Korean ambassador. Absent was the North Korean ambassador, who was instructed by Kim Jong-Un not to participate in it, citing "imperialist" reasons. The five members of the United Nations Security Council: the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, and Russia all voted in favor.
With a decision being made, a tearful and exhausted Secretary General Ban Ki-moon agreed and ended the session, himself affected by the South Korean crisis due to his hometown being overrun by the infected. United Nations Security Council Resolution No. 228 went immediately into effect. Prior to this, ships from Russia, China, the United States Naval Forces in Korea and Japan, as well as JMSDF already began enacting their own quarantine. The RIMPAC fleet was roughly 3-4 days out.
United Nations Security Council
July 22, 2016
On behalf of the United Nations Security Council and the member nations of the United Nations, I hereby implement United Nations Security Council Resolution No. 228, concerning the outbreak of the K-Z virus to be implemented immediately.
The resolution, adopted under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter:
In the United Nations General Headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, representatives and delegates of the UN member countries gathered in the General Assembly Hall to discuss the possibility of enforcing a naval quarantine and a no-fly zone over the Korean peninsula. Roughly 90% of the members voted in favor of a quarantine, including the South Korean ambassador. Absent was the North Korean ambassador, who was instructed by Kim Jong-Un not to participate in it, citing "imperialist" reasons. The five members of the United Nations Security Council: the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, and Russia all voted in favor.
With a decision being made, a tearful and exhausted Secretary General Ban Ki-moon agreed and ended the session, himself affected by the South Korean crisis due to his hometown being overrun by the infected. United Nations Security Council Resolution No. 228 went immediately into effect. Prior to this, ships from Russia, China, the United States Naval Forces in Korea and Japan, as well as JMSDF already began enacting their own quarantine. The RIMPAC fleet was roughly 3-4 days out.
United Nations Security Council
July 22, 2016
The resolution, adopted under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter:
- Humane termination of the infected individuals.
- Imposition of a naval quarantine and a no-fly zone of the entire Korean peninsula, except for ROK and U.S. military planes and ships as well as Korean civilian liners traveling to deemed safe zones.
- Authorization of all means to protect civilians, civilian populated areas, and safe-zones from the infected.
- Imposes a ban on all inbound and outbound flights to and from South Korea, minus those military and civilian liners evacuating civilians into safe zones.
- Establishes a panel of experts, mainly from the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the European Centers for Disease Control (ECDC), the National Health Service (NHS), and the Human Rights Watch to gather samples of the infected for the possible cure or vaccine as well as to monitor the condition of the refugee camps set up in the south of the Korean Peninsula.
Signed,
Ban Ki-moon
Secretary General of the United Nations
Ban Ki-moon
Secretary General of the United Nations