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(Pursuant to his reply 14 March 2003, c482W) To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on the legal basis for military intervention against Iraq. (Dep 03/825).

Asked by

William Cash (Conservative)

Answering body

Prime Minister

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Written questions

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Answered

Tabled on

11 March 2003

For answer on

17 March 2003

Answered on

17 March 2003

Mr. Cash: To ask the Prime Minister if he will make a statement on the legal basis for military intervention against Iraq. [102902] The Solicitor-General: [pursuant to the Prime Minister's answer, 14 March 2003, c. 482W]: The Attorney-General has given a written answer to a question from Baroness Ramsey in the House of Lords today in the following terms: Authority to use force against Iraq exists from the combined effect of resolutions 678, 687 and 1441. All of these resolutions were adopted under Chapter VII of the UN Charter which allows the use of force for the express purpose of restoring international peace and security: 1. In resolution 678 the Security Council authorised force against Iraq, to eject it from Kuwait and to restore peace and security in the area. 2. In resolution 687, which set out the ceasefire conditions after Operation Desert Storm, the Security Council imposed continuing obligations on Iraq to eliminate its weapons of mass destruction in order to restore international peace and security in the area. Resolution 687 suspended but did not terminate the authority to use force under resolution 678. 3. A material breach of resolution 687 revives the authority to use force under resolution 678. 4. In resolution 1441 the Security Council determined that Iraq has been and remains in material breach of resolution 687, because it has not fully complied with its obligations to disarm under that resolution. 5. The Security Council in resolution 1441 gave Iraq "a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations" and warned Iraq of the "serious consequences" if it did not. 6. The Security Council also decided in resolution 1441 that, if Iraq failed at any time to comply with and co-operate fully in the implementation of resolution 1441, that would constitute a further material breach. 7. It is plain that Iraq has failed so to comply and therefore Iraq was at the time of resolution 1441 and continues to be in material breach. 8. Thus, the authority to use force under resolution 678 has revived and so continues today. 9. Resolution 1441 would in terms have provided that a further decision of the Security Council to sanction force was required if that had been intended. Thus, all that resolution 1441 requires is reporting to and discussion by the Security Council of Iraq's failures, but not an express further decision to authorise force. I have lodged a copy of this answer, together with resolutions 678, 687 and 1441 in the Library of both Houses.

Date

17 March 2003

Reference

102902; 401 c515-6W

House

House of Commons

Untitled Oral question

Supplementary on negotiating a chemical weapons treaty & need for biotechnology & resultant genetic defects to be included

Asked by

William Cash (Conservative)

Answering body

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Oral questions - 1st Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

11 January 1989

Reference

144 c840

House

House of Commons

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