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minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-214 days agoYou know, I don’t actually know how that unfolded. Was it NATO itself, or just all the NATO members? I kind of assumed it was like Iraq.
minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-214 days agoIt was NATO itself, operating under a UN mandate. NATO also had a mission in Iraq.
minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·14 days agoWhat UN mandate? They explicitly didn’t have one, because China and Russia would block it.
minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 days agoNATO was enforcing S/RES/1199, which demanded the end of action which affected civilians and end military action.
minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·14 days agoS/RES/1199 doesn’t authorize any kind of enforcement. It makes demands of a ceasefire, endorses observers, and threatens to “consider further action”, but doesn’t actually give any mandate for anything.
You know, I don’t actually know how that unfolded. Was it NATO itself, or just all the NATO members? I kind of assumed it was like Iraq.
It was NATO itself, operating under a UN mandate.
NATO also had a mission in Iraq.
What UN mandate? They explicitly didn’t have one, because China and Russia would block it.
NATO was enforcing S/RES/1199, which demanded the end of action which affected civilians and end military action.
S/RES/1199 doesn’t authorize any kind of enforcement. It makes demands of a ceasefire, endorses observers, and threatens to “consider further action”, but doesn’t actually give any mandate for anything.