UN Urged to Ignore Bush Plea for Human Cloning Ban
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Britain's national academy of science  urged the United Nations on Monday to ignore a call by  President Bush to ban all forms of human cloning.
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Leading scientists have urged peers not to block the use of human-animal hybrid embryos for research.
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A coalition of 125 scientific  and patients' groups urged the United Nations on Wednesday to  reject a global ban on stem cell research sought by the Bush  administration and more than 50 other countries.
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The UK's Royal Society urges the UN to ignore a call by President Bush to ban all forms of human cloning.
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UK scientists are calling for the UN to ignore a call by President Bush to ban all forms of cloning.
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President Bush's ambassador to  the United Nations defended the world body on Wednesday, after  California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said the United States,  not the U.N., was best for democracy.
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A U.S.-led campaign to ban  cloning of human embryos, including for stem cell research,  crumbled on Friday as a divided United Nations prepared to  abandon the initiative.
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Britain's leading scientific institution  said Monday it is urging countries to back a campaign to stop a  possible ban on stem cell research as part of a global treaty  banning human cloning. The London-based Royal Society is  stepping up its drive to push the United Nations to ban the  cloning of babies, but to make no ruling on using the  technology for medical research, or therapeutic cloning, at its  59th General Session in October. The 191-nation U.N. General  Assembly is divided over whether to allow therapeutic cloning  to continue or to adopt a broad cloning ban championed by the  Bush administration and Costa Rica with strong backing from the  U.S. anti-abortion movement and many predominantly Roman  Catholic nations.
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Despite a U.S. push to put in place a worldwide ban on human embryo cloning, the proposed pact remains in limbo after three years. The sticking point? Therapeutic cloning.
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Britain's leading scientific institution said Monday it is urging countries to back a campaign to stop a possible ban on stem cell research as part of a global treaty banning human cloning.
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The Bush administration on  Friday urged quick U.N. action on a global treaty to ban all  cloning of human embryos, including for medical research, but  diplomats said the measure would go nowhere before the Nov. 2  U.S. elections.
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U.N. diplomats, deadlocked for years over the drafting of treaty to ban the cloning of human beings worldwide, open negotiations on Monday on an alternative that would instead urge each government to adopt its own laws on human cloning.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in his farewell address, criticized the Bush administration, warning that America must not sacrifice its Democratic ideals while waging war against terrorism.
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President George W. Bush on Wednesday vetoed for a second time a bill seeking to encourage potentially groundbreaking embryonic stem cell research, saying it violates the sanctity of human life.
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The US State Department refused Wednesday to comment on calls for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to resign because of the oil-for-food scandal.
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After nearly two years of negotiations, the United Nations has chosen to shelve human cloning treaties and instead consider a non-binding declaration introduced by Italy as a compromise to please polarized member states.
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The Bush administration is aggressively seeking to include stem cell and other research known as therapeutic cloning in a ban on the reproductive cloning of human beings.