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67 Academies of sciences which signed the Statement on human cloning which IAP released in September 2003 were contacted again in August 2004 and asked to send a copy of the IAP Statement to the appropriate officials in their government and inform them of the position adopted by the global assembly of science academies. The statement called for a global ban on reproductive cloning, and urged that policy on cloning for research or therapeutic purposes should be left to individual countries to determine according to their own circumstances. The UN Sixth Committee will revisit this topic again this month (October) and a vote on this issue is provisionally scheduled for October 20/21.
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December 2003:

IAP reiterates its support for therapeutic cloning ....
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September 2003:

More than 60 science academies, members of IAP, from every continent in the world have called on the United Nations to adopt a ban on human reproductive cloning. The IAP statement was issued on 22 September 2003. In the same statement, however, the science academies say that therapeutic cloning should be exempt from the ban.

IAP members will present the statement to delegates of the UN Committee on Cloning, scheduled to meet at UN headquarters in New York City between September 29 and 3 October. The Committee has examined the possibility of issuing a declaration that endorses a ban on cloning. Consensus, however, has been hampered by disagreements concerning the scope of such a ban, especially whether the ban should apply to research and therapeutic cloning.

Since 22 September, four more IAP members have endorsed the statement: Academy of Sciences of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, and Akademi Sains Malaysia. That brings the total number of signatories to 67.

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Portuguese]]>0cspaulding@diamax.comWed, 15 Nov 2006 10:22:02 GMT 3571-Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:57:09 GMThttp://www.interacademies.net/CMS/About/3143/3569/3571.aspx0cspaulding@diamax.comFri, 15 Apr 2005 13:57:09 GMT 3574-Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:59:12 GMThttp://www.interacademies.net/CMS/About/3143/3569/3574.aspx0cspaulding@diamax.comFri, 15 Apr 2005 13:59:12 GMT 3577-Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:00:41 GMThttp://www.interacademies.net/CMS/About/3143/3569/3577.aspx0cspaulding@diamax.comFri, 15 Apr 2005 14:00:41 GMT 3580-Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:02:06 GMThttp://www.interacademies.net/CMS/About/3143/3569/3580.aspx0cspaulding@diamax.comFri, 15 Apr 2005 14:02:06 GMT 3583-Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:03:43 GMThttp://www.interacademies.net/CMS/About/3143/3569/3583.aspx0cspaulding@diamax.comFri, 15 Apr 2005 14:03:43 GMT 3586-Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:05:18 GMThttp://www.interacademies.net/CMS/About/3143/3569/3586.aspxSixty-six members of the InterAcademy Panel on International Issues (IAP) have called on the UN General Assembly to avoid voting a second time on a resolution to ban both therapeutic and human reproductive cloning. The Costa Rican delegation plans to reintroduce such a resolution at the UN just one month after it failed to win approval.

On 6 November 2003, the UN Legal Committee voted to support a motion by Iran to postpone a decision on a worldwide resolution on cloning until 2005. The approval for delay ended debate on two competing resolutions: one submitted by Costa Rica that called for a total ban on both therapeutic and human reproductive cloning, and another submitted by Belgium, which also called for a ban on human reproductive cloning but would have allowed each member state to determine whether to pursue a national policy that permitted therapeutic cloning.

On 22 September, the IAP issued a statement that "scientific research on reproductive cloning" - in mammals other than humans - "shows that there is a markedly higher than normal incidence of fetal disorders and loss throughout pregnancy, and of malformation and death among newborns,and that there is no reason to suppose that the outcome would be different in humans. Therefore", the statement asserted, "even on a purely scientific basis, it would be quite irresponsible for anyone to attempt human reproductive cloning given our current level of scientific knowledge."

At the same time, the statement points out that "cloning for research and therapeutic purposes has considerable potential from a scientific perspective, and should be excluded from the ban on human cloning." Such efforts could foster new therapies for millions of people suffering from diabetes, Parkinson's Disease and spinal cord injuries.

In a resolution agreed by 66 members during IAP's General Assembly and Conference on Society for Society held in Mexico City from 1-5 December, the IAP reiterated its stance on both therapeutic cloning (which it supports) and human reproductive cloning (which it does not). The December statement reads:

Members of the InterAcademy Panel, gathered for their General Assembly at the Mexican Academy of Sciences, are deeply concerned by an apparent proposal to move a vote at the U.N. General Assembly on Monday 8 December to ban all forms of human cloning. The IAP is the global consortium of the world's national academies of science. Sixty-six national academies, from all parts of the world and all cultural traditions, under the leadership of the IAP, called in September 2003 for a global ban on human reproductive cloning as a matter of urgency. Crucially, however, the 66 academies also called for policies on the acceptability of cloning for research and therapeutic purposes to be excluded from the global ban and to be determined at the national level. In doing this, the Academies recognized both the diversity of views on this difficult issue and the great medical potential of research on stem cells and cloning. This position was partially upheld by the U.N. Legal Committee on 6 November 2003, when a proposal to ban all forms of human cloning was put into abeyance for two years. We call upon the U.N. to stand by the decision of 6 November, to heed IAP's clear expression of global scientific consensus, and not to jeopardize the potential and far-reaching medical benefits that may arise from cloning for research and therapeutic purposes.]]>0cspaulding@diamax.comFri, 15 Apr 2005 14:05:18 GMT 3589-Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:12:38 GMThttp://www.interacademies.net/CMS/About/3143/3569/3589.aspx0cspaulding@diamax.comFri, 15 Apr 2005 14:12:38 GMT 3591-Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:14:38 GMThttp://www.interacademies.net/CMS/About/3143/3569/3591.aspx0cspaulding@diamax.comFri, 15 Apr 2005 14:14:38 GMT 3593-Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:16:17 GMThttp://www.interacademies.net/CMS/About/3143/3569/3593.aspx0cspaulding@diamax.comFri, 15 Apr 2005 14:16:17 GMT 3595-Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:17:27 GMThttp://www.interacademies.net/CMS/About/3143/3569/3595.aspx0cspaulding@diamax.comFri, 15 Apr 2005 14:17:27 GMT 3597-Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:19:01 GMThttp://www.interacademies.net/CMS/About/3143/3569/3597.aspx0cspaulding@diamax.comFri, 15 Apr 2005 14:19:01 GMT