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Brian Wilson claims legality of airstrikes



BBC Radio 4 World at One
18 February 2001

Interviewer: 'Are you satisfied that this is being done under the umbrella
of international law?'

Brian Wilson (new Minister of State with special responsibility for Iraq at
the Foreign Office): 'It is being done as a policy of humanitarian
protection to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe over [catches himself] or
under, the no-fly zones. It is being done under the United Nations Security
Council Resolution 688 which authorises that humanitarian action.'

Comments:

1) Absence of evidence that humanitarian catastrophe is being prevented by
no-fly zones.

2) Considerable evidence that humanitarian catastrophe is being caused by
economic sanctions.

3) UNSCR 688 does not authorise the setting up of no-fly zones either in the
north or the south of Iraq (or anywhere else in Iraq).

4) UNSCR 688 does not authorise the use of force for humanitarian purposes
in Iraq.

5) UNSCR 688 does not authorise the use of force by US or UK aircraft in
pre-emptive attacks to maintain their safety during supposedly humanitarian
patrols.

Resolution text in .pdf format
http://www.un.org/Docs/scres/1991/688e.pdf

Contact details for Brian Wilson MP from Dave Rolstone's earlier post:

Labour Member for Cunninghame North
House of Commons London SW1A 1AA
Tel 020 7219 4033

Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
King Charles Street London SW1 2AH
Tel (020) 7270 2090 Fax (020) 7270 3731

Constituency Office,
37 Main Street Kilburnie Ayrshire KA25 7BX
Tel 01505 682847 Fax 01505 684648

e-mail:- user@brian-wilson-mp.new.labour.org.uk   and
ps/mrwilson@scotland.gov.uk


Cheers

Mil

Milan Rai
Joint Coordinator
Voices in the Wilderness UK
National Office
16B Cherwell St, Oxford OX4 1BG

NEW personal contact details
29 Gensing Road, St Leonards-on-sea TN38 0HE
ph 0845 458 9571 (local rate) pager 07623 746 462


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