Dear United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, I would first and foremost like to thank you for entertaining my countries proposal to become a permanent sitting member of the United Nations Security Council. The United Nations leads an invaluable expedition to attain peace and international security throughout the world. On behalf of the people of the Republic of Ireland, I can assure you that we honor our membership by maintaining goals, policies and values that serve only to promote this mission
Security. Economically, socially, and humanitarianly, speaking. As well as peace, are what the United Nations wished to provide when it was founded in 1945 (Amrith 254). Multiple different individuals from numerous countries, both east and west, aided in its installment. United States’ President Franklin Delanore Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor, were huge contributors to the founding of the United Nations (Amrith 253). The security and peace the U.N. was to provide was in high demand following
HOW EFFICIENT IS THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL IN PROMOTING GLOBAL SECURITY (WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO DARFUR AND IRAQ)? “Mr. Secretary General, Mr. President, distinguished delegates, and ladies and gentlemen: We meet one year and one day after a terrorist attack brought grief to my country, and brought grief to many citizens of our world. Yesterday, we remembered the innocent lives taken that terrible morning. Today we turn to the urgent duty of protecting other lives
The National Security Council is a forum for the president to consider issues of national security and foreign policy with his national security advisers and senior cabinet officials. The problem of national security strategy is that it causes many conflicts and arguments. There are many definitions of concepts of national security. Traditionally security means, first, as the physical survival of the state, protection and preservation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity, the ability to react
Rwandan Genocide: The United States, France and the Failure of the UN Security Council. Between the months of April and July in 1994 approximately one million people were killed in Rwanda. There are three ethnic groups in Rwanda, Hutu, Tutsi, and Aboriginal Twa. The genocide occurred between two different groups, the Hutu and Tutsi people. The Hutu composed close to 85% of the population while the minority Tutsi people make up approximately 14% with the Twa people composing the remaining 1%. The
Small States In the analysis of the theories that will be used in analyzing whether the United Nations Security Council is beyond reform from the perspective of Small nation states. It is observed firstly that International relations theory do in fact points out several positions of disagreement that in fact questions either the capacity of international organizations to impact changes in the international system, or their ability to facilitate anything else but the interests of their most powerful
Terrorism by its very nature disrupts international peace and security through premeditated, political violence. The 11th September attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon disrupted the global economy. The attacks spawned and facilitated widespread personal fear, panic and economic dislocation (Bergen, 2002). According to the United Nations Security Council, one of the objectives of the terrorists was to create a state of global anarchy by means of influencing the conduct of government
forces captured and killed Moammar Gaddafi on 20 October 2011, thus terminating the ICC investigations against him (Dicker, 2013). However the cases of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and Abdullah Senussi have remained in contention. The National Transitional Council (NTC), the temporary governing body of Libya, has appealed the admissibility of ICC jurisdiction in the cases against Gaddafi and Senussi in the ICC’s pre-trial Chamber. On 11 October 2013, the pre-trial chamber judges at the ICC issued their determination
governments support terrorism or fails to apprehend terrorists. This essay seeks to analyse the justiciability of military force under the Security Council Resolution in two different circumstances which will be seen under part (i) and part (ii) below. The essay will firstly discuss the Security Council’s (SC) role in maintaining international peace and security through Article 2(4) and whether terrorism allows for the use of force under self-defence. It will then explain how the use of force against
Abstract This paper evaluates the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 242 with regard to its historical background, interpretations, aftermath, present status, and legal ramifications. UNSCR 242 was drafted after the Six-Day war between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. This resolution is the bedrock of further treaties that were signed. According to the resolution, Israel is supposed to return the captured land, however, due to a conflict of interpretation, there has been several