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[casi] Where is Lord Goldsmith?




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(I wonder whether Lord Goldmith will be accompanying  Blair in the Azores) -pg

>From Reuters Oct 02, 2003

Two of Britain’s most senior legal figures have warned Prime Minister Tony Blair that military 
action against Iraq to force a regime change would breach international law, the Financial Times 
said on Monday. The newspaper said Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith and Solicitor General 
Harriet Harman had given Blair confidential advice that international law would allow military 
action in “limited circumstances” to support UN resolutions. “But it rules out war to achieve 
regime change,” it said. The legal advice puts Britain in a potentially difficult situation if it 
does end up supporting the United States alone in a military attack on Iraq, the paper added. 
Officials at Blair’s Downing Street Office could not confirm the legal advice and said they had no 
comment on the report. The Financial Times did not say when the advice was given, nor did it give 
its sources for the information. (Reuters 062348 GMT Oct 02)



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