Nations Which Have Co-Sponsored Costa Rica’s Anti-Cloning Ban at the United Nations
Date: 11/13/2003
The following 67 nations have joined Costa Rica in sponsoring a world-wide ban on human cloning:
| Albania Angola Antigua and Barbuda Benin Burundi Central African Republic Chad Chile Congo, Democratic Rep. of Costa Rica Côte d’Ivoire Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Fiji Gambia Georgia Grenada Guinea |
Guyana Haiti Honduras Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Kenya Kyrgyzstan Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Marshall Islands Micronesia Nauru Nicaragua Nigeria Norway Palau Papua New Guinea Panama Paraguay Philippines Portugal |
Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent/Grenadines San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Sierra Leone Sierra Leone Solomon Islands Spain Suriname Tajikistan Tanzania Timor-Leste Turkmenistan Tuvalu Uganda The United States of America Uzbekistan Vanuatu Zambia |
By contrast, the following 23 nations have sponsored the Belgian proposal which would ban reproductive cloning but allow cloning for research purposes to carry on unabated:
| Belarus Belgium Brazil China Cuba The Czech Republic Denmark Estonia |
Finland Greece Iceland Japan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania The Republic of Korea |
Singapore Slovenia South Africa Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom |