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Thread #78771 Message #1655401
Posted By: Wolfgang
25-Jan-06 - 09:15 AM
Thread Name: BS: IRAN - WMD's or weapons of mass deception
Subject: RE: BS: IRAN - WMD's or weapons of mass deception
Recalling that its resolution 678 (1990) authorized Member States to use all necessary means to uphold and implement its resolution 660 (1990) of 2 August 1990 and all relevant resolutions subsequent to resolution 660 (1990)... (from UNSC 1441)
authorizes member states... to use all necessary means to uphold and implement resolution 660 (from UNSC 678)
The two paragraphs you quote, Carol, are an unconvincing support for the claim that that resolution "specifically forbade" use of force.
UNSC resolutions are rarely clearer than the two paragraphs I have quoted above. That has a reason: The interests are so divergent that the veto powers insist on a wording that can be read differently by interested parties. So there will never be one particular interpretation the only one possible. But to read Nowhere in this resolution is there any language authorizing any member states to use force against Iraq into resolution 1441 as the only possible interpretation is wishful thinking.