Annan Says U.S. Will Violate Charter if It Acts Without Approval

NYT ^ | 3/10/2003 | Patrick Tyler and Felicity Barringer

[ex-Texan]

Annan Says U.S. Will Violate Charter if It Acts Without Approval

UNITED NATIONS, March 10 — Secretary General Kofi Annan warned today that if the United States fails to win approval from the Security Council for an attack on Iraq, Washington's decision to act alone or outside the Council would violate the United Nations charter.

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Mr. Annan's remarks drew a sharp response from Washington, where the Bush administration, like its allies overseas, was engaged in a strong lobbying effort to win the necessary nine votes to pass a resolution this week authorizing war.

The White House spokesman Ari Fleischer in a strongly worded retort said that "from a moral point of view," if the United Nations fails to support the Bush administration's war aims, it will have "failed to act once again," as it did in Kosovo in the face of persecution of the ethnic Albanians by Serbia and earlier in Rwanda in the face of genocidal massacres by Hutus against Tutsis.

Some international legal experts also took issue with Mr. Annan's assertions ***

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[clintonh8r]

Oh, no! Not that!

[ChadGore]

Like Clinton in Kosovo? Like Chirac in Ivory Coast ?

[Brett66]

I guess we need to be kicked out of it then. Come on Kofi, show some b*lls!

[Captiva]

Annan Says U.S. Will Violate Charter if It Acts Without Approval

GOOD!!

[goodnesswins]

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[mhking]

Screw 'em. Let's roll.

What time is Franks due in Qatar?

[eyespysomething]

LOL. They are acting like we give a s^*$ what the UN now says. They won't confront Iraq, they gonna do sumptin' to us?

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

I like this Ari Fleischer guy hes good at slapping the press around without lifting a finger

he he he

[Bogey78O]

I double dog dare you to kick us out Kofi!

[cynicom]

Tell that clown to pack up the damned UN and move it to Africa or France. Then they can sit around all day pontificating while the world goes on without them.

[Hoverbug]

Once again, Kofi Annan has shown determined leadership by stating today that the UN may decide that it might be time to conceivably give serious consideration to possibly thinking about maybe addressing the option of debating whether or not it should take under investigation the idea of pondering the question as to whether it should regard the exploration of perhaps taking under advisement the many alternatives of ways to actually do something as a possible course of action that may be potentially viable.

[Beck_isright]

Did Mr. Anal er Annan think that just maybe we might be withdrawing from the United Nations League of Nations when this is all said and done?

[eyespysomething]

well said! ;-P

[FreedomCalls]

Wake up and smell the Kofi.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"Annan Says U.S. Will Violate Charter if It Acts Without Approval."

So, we'll worry about it seventeen or eighteen resolutions from now.

[way-right-of-center]

Would skipping the "double dog dare" and going straight to the "triple dog dare" be a violation of UN Charter?

[Beck_isright]

Did you see Hannity tonight? Bill Kristol and Hannity both agreed it's time to get the U.S. out of the U.N. or at least start discussing this openly in the halls of Congress!!!! Will wonders never cease.

[Bogey78O]

Ignore Kofi...

He suffers from Ghana-rea.

[way-right-of-center]

lol...great post