I have seen the same thing in mayoral declarations or the like. Whereas John Q. Doe is an upstanding citizen who has contributed to the city, and Whereas

I have seen the same thing in mayoral declarations or the like. Whereas John Q. Doe is an upstanding citizen who has contributed to the city, and Whereas aforementioned Mr. Doe is an awesome dude, and Whereas some people who happened to contribute to my campaign are fans of Mr. Doe, Therefore, I, Mayor Wile E. Coyote do hereby declare Octember 31st, 2012 as John Q. Doe Day in the city of Acme, CO. In this context, the UN resolution is actually similar to the comma-style used here by Twitter. We don't want the statement/sentence to end, so we use semicolons/commas to make it continue, and end up breaking browsers/non-lawyer readers.