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UN Delays Work on Human Cloning Treaty for a Year

>>a slight positive for the stem cell comps...
and i hope this satisfies Bush, they voted twice on this due to him, last month UN voted on a 2 year delay, he protested and now got it to one ...the UN is not Fl.)

By Evelyn Leopold

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly decided on Tuesday to put off negotiations for a year on a treaty banning human cloning that the Bush administration wants to extend to research on stem cells.

All 191 U.N. members agree on a treaty that would prohibit cloning of human beings. But nations are divided about whether to allow cloning human embryos for stem cell or other research, known as "therapeutic" cloning.