When Security Council Violates the UN Charter
Hassan Tahsin
The UN Security Council, tasked with the protection and maintenance of international peace and security, was established to enforce the aims and principles of the United Nations. And the council’s decisions are, most of the time, in accordance with those lofty aims. However, the situation has changed after the world came to live under the “new world order”. Under this new dispensation, the Security Council has lost its objectivity and its decisions have come to serve the interests of larger countries.
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Russia claims right to strike first
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
The Associated Press
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MOSCOW — Russia and the United States see eye to eye on fighting terrorism, Russia's defense minister said yesterday, while reiterating that Moscow reserves the right to carry out pre-emptive strikes on militant bases abroad in the wake of the school-hostage seizure in Beslan.
Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov did not say what countries might be possible targets for a strike, but Russian officials have said Chechen separatists have bases in nearby Georgia, and Russia has had friction with that country's government over the issue.
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