1. Interview with Brian Urquhart
- Author:
- Robert Sedgwick
- Publication Date:
- 11-2006
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Columbia International Affairs Online
- Abstract:
- RS: Let's start at the beginning. In 2003 Colin Powell went to the UN and declared Iraq to be in violation of Resolution 1441 (passed Nov. 2002). A subsequent resolution was drawn up authorizing the use of force but was withdrawn when it became evident that three of the permanent members of the Security Council were going to veto it. The United States then went to war without the support of the Security Council in what many have condemned as a flagrant violation of international law. Were you at the time and are you now at all concerned about the legal consequences of the invasion and what kind of precedent it may have set?
- Political Geography:
- United States and Iraq