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- From: silvers3@husc8.harvard.edu (Jolyon Silversmith)
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- Subject: Re: REVERSING THE SCALES OF INJUSTICE: If Iraq Oc
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.231332.19764@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 04:13:31 GMT
- Article-I.D.: husc3.1993Jan24.231332.19764
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- In article <C1DEMw.JwC@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Mason.L.Allen@dartmouth.edu (Mason L. Allen) writes:
- >
- >Once again, my point is that the US does not have to abide by any
- >international law and it is not in its interest to do so.
- >International law as a rule is not controlled by set standards or
- >violations. Its is a fieldwork of diplomacy - often, the Gen. Assembly
- >of the UN will pass resolutions against all of the major western
- >powers, which are ignored because nobody in the GA has the power to
- >back them up.
-
- General Assembly resolutions are NOT considered to be international law. They
- are established by the UN Charter to be merely advisory, without the binding
- power of Security Council resolutions or "traditional" international law. Read
- up on the subject before posting explicitly wrong statements.
-
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- Jolyon A. Silversmith __________________________________________________________
- Mather House 100 Director: Civil Liberties These opinions aren't
- Cambridge, MA 02138 Union of Harvard College necessarily those of
- silvers3@husc.harvard.edu ________________________________ CLUH. But who knows?
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