No new UNSC resolution needed for war against Iraq: Howard
Asian Political News, March 17, 2003
Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Sunday called the prospects of a new U.N. Security Council resolution on Iraq ''very remote indeed'' but argued there is ''already an adequate basis in international law'' for the United States and its allies to launch an attack.
''The prospects of that resolution or some roughly equivalent or acceptably amended form passing the Security Council now appears very remote indeed,'' Howard told a press conference, speaking a day after telephone talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
But he added, ''At the eleventh hour, you could still get a faint possibility of avoiding military conflict if everybody in the Security Council got behind a tough new resolution.''
In an apparent allusion to France, Howard said the difficulty in gaining acceptance for a new resolution proposed by the U.S., Britain and Spain is ''largely due to the intransigent attitude being taken by one of the other (Security Council) permanent members.''
No new UNSC resolution needed for war against Iraq: Howard
Asian Political News, March 17, 2003
Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Sunday called the prospects of a new U.N. Security Council resolution on Iraq ''very remote indeed'' but argued there is ''already an adequate basis in international law'' for the United States and its allies to launch an attack.
''The prospects of that resolution or some roughly equivalent or acceptably amended form passing the Security Council now appears very remote indeed,'' Howard told a press conference, speaking a day after telephone talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
But he added, ''At the eleventh hour, you could still get a faint possibility of avoiding military conflict if everybody in the Security Council got behind a tough new resolution.''
In an apparent allusion to France, Howard said the difficulty in gaining acceptance for a new resolution proposed by the U.S., Britain and Spain is ''largely due to the intransigent attitude being taken by one of the other (Security Council) permanent members.''
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