International attention to governance of human cloning began in earnest in August 2001 in the UN General Assembly, when under rule 14 of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly, the Permanent Missions of France and Germany requested the Secretary-General to include a supplementary item in the agenda of the fi fty-sixth session entitled ‘International convention against the reproductive cloning of human beings’. 61 In the explanatory memorandum, they recalled of the Universal Declaration and stated that given its ‘multidisciplinary nature, the issue could not be dealt with in all its aspects in any of the specialized agencies (such.
