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Lessons of Kosovo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2017

Thomas M. Franck
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Editorial Comments: Nato’s Kosovo Intervention
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 93 , Issue 4 , October 1999 , pp. 857 - 860
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1999

References

1 SC Res. 1244, preambular para. 13 (June 10,1999).

2 Id., para. 3.

3 Id., paras. 7–9.

4 Id., para. 11(c).

5 Yugoslavia “agreed” to this settlement. See id., Annex 2. However, the resolution is mandatory under Chapter VII of the Charter and is not based on consent.

6 SC Res. 1244, supra note 1, para. 19.

7 SC Res. 687, UN SCOR, 46th Sess., Res. & Dec, at 11, UN Doc. S/INF/47 (1991), reprinted in 30 ILM 846 (1991).

8 Id., paras. 1–3, 5–6, 7–10, 12–13.

9 Id., paras. 7–10, 16–19.

10 Iraq “has no choice but to accept this resolution.” Identical letters from the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq addressed respectively to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council (Apr. 6,1991), UN Doc. S/22456 (1991).

11 SC Res. 687, supra note 7, preambular para. 3; SC Res. 1244, supra note 1, preambular para. 10.

12 Antonio Cassese, Ex iniuria ius oritur: Are We Moving towards International Legitimation of Forcible Humanitarian Countermeasures in the World Community? 10 Eur. J. Int’l L. 23, 26 (1999) (the author was then Presiding Judge, Trial Chamber II, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia).

13 UN SCOR, 1st Sess., 1st series, 25th–26th mtgs., 34th–40th mtgs. (1946).

14 SC Res. 217, UN SCOR, 20th Sess., Res. & Dec, at 8, UN Doc. S/INF/20/Rev.1 (1965).

15 SC Res. 418, UN SCOR, 32d Sess., Res. & Dec, at 5, UN Doc. S/INF/33 (1977).

16 The Security Council authorized use of force against the Haitian junta, having found a “humanitarian crisis” and a “climate of fear of persecution.” SC Res. 841, UN SCOR, 48th Sess., Res. & Dec, at 119, 119, UN Doc. S/INF/49 (1993).

17 See Edward Luttwak, Give War a Chance, Foreign Aff., July/Aug. 1999, at 36.

18 SC Res. 678 (Nov. 29, 1990), reprinted in 29 ILM 1565 (1990).

19 The misquotations often result from overlooking the exception to this exception: “but this principle shall not prejudice the application of enforcement measures under Chapter VII.” UN Charter Art. 2(7).

20 SC Res. 678, supra note 18.

21 SC Res. 1160, preamble (Mar. 31,1998); SC Res. 1199, preamble (Sept. 23,1998); and SC Res. 1203, preamble (Oct. 24,1999).

22 SC Res. 1203, supra note 21, para. 5.

23 SC Res. 1244, supra note 1.

24 Bruno Simma, NATO, the UN and the Use of Farce: Legal Aspects, 10 Eur. J. Int’l L. 1, 5 (1999).

25 Id. at 6.

26 See Michael J. Glennon, The New Interventionism: The Search for a Just International Law, Foreign Aff., May/June 1999, at 2.