Pip@feddit.org to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 12 days agoNATO will not join US–Israel campaign, Rutte saystvpworld.comexternal-linkmessage-square172fedilinkarrow-up1218arrow-down14
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minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-212 days agoIt was NATO itself, operating under a UN mandate. NATO also had a mission in Iraq.
minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·12 days agoWhat UN mandate? They explicitly didn’t have one, because China and Russia would block it.
minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 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-down1·11 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.
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.