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- From: swo6176@zeus.tamu.edu (ODONNELL, SEAN WILLIAM JR.)
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- Subject: Re: REVERSING THE SCALES OF INJUSTICE: If Iraq Occupied the
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 14:06 CST
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- >> Just curious how do you feel the UN should have acted when the USA
- >> Ignored a world court ruling that The Sandanista government of
- >> Nicaragua brought against it,
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- >You have to understand, throughout history, organizations such as the
- >World Court & the United Nations have only been as strong as the
- >nations which lead them. Don't think these two are the first - ever
- >here of the Leauge of Nations, the Benelux treaties, or the Leauge of
- >Augsburg (or, for that matter, the Justice Leauge America??) What
- >matters is not the court ruling, but the actions of Kuwait.
- >limit the use of gas and to explore alt. sources of energy. If the
-
-
- Hmm, I can't seem to master this editor... OH well...
-
- For your information, there is no World Court. There is a World Bank,
- but not World Court. The closest thing to a World Court is the
- International Court of Justice (or ICJ) whose only duty is to advise the
- General Assembly and similar bodies of the United Nations on the legality
- of its actions under the Charter of the United Nations and subsequent
- charters, resolutions, declarations, etc. It is not within this bodies
- (body's I should say) jurisdiction to rule on such a case as the US v.
- Nicaragua. As far as the Iraq case goes, the main issue is the United
- Nations right to impede on the sovereignty of the nation of Iraq, which is
- explicitly denied the UN under the Charter. But it does allow such actions
- when there is a threat to international (I stress international) peace.
- This makes the Iraq excursion legal, whereas the Somalia issue is, to be
- honest, illegal under current international law.
-
- You may be saying, "Sure the ICJ has power over the rest of the nation."
- Sorry, it doesn't. The only body, under international law (which is a
- quagmire and quandry as it is), that can impose on the sovereignty of
- other nations occasionally and is always binding (no other body in the
- UN is binding) is the Security Council. Otherwise, all UN resolutions
- are non-binding and wishful.
-
- Sean O'Donnell
- Secretary General, Texas A&M Model United Nations
-