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The U.N. doesn't quite have the authority to legislate what individual nations do within their boundaries. They may sit there in the assembly room and propose measures, but it remains for the individual sovereign states to decide whether to take those measures and run with them, or not. You don't seriously think that a United Nations declaration is suddenly going to become law in the United States, for example, do you?