Pip@feddit.org to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 1 month agoNATO will not join US–Israel campaign, Rutte saystvpworld.comexternal-linkmessage-square180linkfedilinkarrow-up1650
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minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoWhat UN mandate? They explicitly didn’t have one, because China and Russia would block it.
minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoNATO was enforcing S/RES/1199, which demanded the end of action which affected civilians and end military action.
minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month 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.
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.