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I. Legal Assessment of the Use of Force Against Iraq*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2008

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Abstract

As the legal basis for the military action against Iraq references are made to Security Council resolutions 678 (1990), 687 (1991), 1441 (2002).

In our view the above-mentioned resolutions considered in their entirety and in combination with other resolutions on Iraq, official statements of States on their interpretation and provisions of the UN Charter which were the basis for their adoption, show that the Security Council did not authorise Member States in this case to use force against Iraq.

Type
Current Developments: Public International Law
Information
International & Comparative Law Quarterly , Volume 52 , Issue 4 , October 2003 , pp. 1059 - 1063
Copyright
Copyright © British Institute of International and Comparative Law 2003

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References

1 See, eg, the statement of the President of the Russian Federation, 17 Jan 1998; the statements of the Government of the Russian Federation in relation to the situation in Iraq, 3 Sep 1996; press releases of the MFA of Russia in relation to the situation in Iraq, 26 Jan 1998, 6 Nov 1998, 17 Nov 1998, 29 May 1999; the statement of the official representative of the MFA of Russia on the continuation of work of the Security Council on the coordination of new approaches to the interaction between the UN and Iraq, 12 Feb 1999; the statement of the MFA of Russia in respect of the adoption of Security Council resolution 1284, 17 Dec 1999.Google Scholar