الرافدین للحقوق (Sep 2024)

The basis of the Security Council's authority to impose international economic sanctions and the possibility of their control

  • Abdulsamad Kocher,
  • Khalaf ALjubori

DOI
https://doi.org/10.33899/alaw.2019.125759.1005
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 88
pp. 87 – 131

Abstract

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AbstractThe Security Council, as the executive organ of the United Nations, has wide powers to resolve international disputes and to achieve international peace and security. It has the power to define and conditioning illegal acts and to impose economic sanctions. The imposition of such sanctions by the Security Council raises many doubts about its credibility, although it is based on legal basis in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations. Many of the terms set out in the Charter, particularly those in Article 39, makes many problems about its interpretation. which help powerful countries to adapt these texts to.

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