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- Subject: Supporters of Attack on Iraq Read This...
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 00:48:16 GMT
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- Organization: San Francisco State University
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- UN Lawyers Back Iraqi View - Attacks Not Authorized
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- The United Nations' legal department says it sees no language in
- existing UN resolutions that would give the United States, Britain
- and France authority to enforce the no-fly zones they have imposed
- in Iraq - including the area involved in yesterday's [1/21/93]
- incident.
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- The interpretation by the U.N legal staff, first reported
- Wednesday, on whether the allies have authority to enforce the no-
- fly zones came as a surprise and appears to bolster Iraq's case -
- at least technically - that the coalition's actions may be illegal.
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- The allies traditionally have based their enforcement actions on
- U.N. Security Council Resolution 688, which condemns the Iraqi
- government's repression of minorities like the Kurds and Shiites.
- They argue that enforcement authority is inherent in the language
- there.
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- But the UN interpretation is that because the resolution was not
- enacted under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which authorizes the
- use of force to maintain international peace and security, it
- contains no enforcement power.
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- Even so, U.N. officials conceded yesterday that the advisory ruling
- probably does not mean that the allies must stop using military
- power to enforce the resolution.
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- "It's not our function... to tell a member state how to define a
- resolution," one official said.
-
- (Reprinted from SF Chronicle, 1/23/93, p. 2)
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