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RE: [casi] no fly zones



> Can some-one inform about whether the no-fly zones in northern
> and southern
> Iraq are the result of a UNSC resolution, or zones imposed by the
> US and UK on their own?

Hi Peter,

The zones were imposed by the US, the UK and France without authority from
the United Nations.  SCR 688, passed during the 1991 intifada, has often
been cited as the resolution that the no-fly zones enforce.  The CASI
website has a brief commentary on this at
http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/info/scriraq.html#1991.  Last February,
Sarah Graham-Brown wrote a MERIP PIN (http://www.merip.org/pins/pin49.html)
on the zones.

Colin Rowat

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