UN bans all types of cloning

  • 09/03/2005

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)

A divided UN General Assembly has adopted a non-binding declaration banning all types of cloning, including for therapeutic purposes, but those who opposed it, including India, said they would go ahead with the research. India joined 34-member States on Tuesday in opposing the document, strongly backed by the Bush administration, with 84 States voting for it. As many as 37 members of the 191-member Assembly abstained during the vote which pitted some of the staunchest American allies, including Britain, against the United States. The adoption of declaration, which gives symbolic victory to the us, brings to conclusion four-years efforts to negotiate an international treaty putting a mandatory ban on reproductive cloning.