International law and the nato intervention in Kosovo

International and Comparative Law Quarterly

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 926-934

  Greenwood, Christopher ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33645659555     PISSN: 00205893     EISSN: 14716895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0020589300064745     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. SCR 1199, penultimate paragraph of the Preamble
2. SCR 1203, penultimate paragraph of the Preamble.
3. A determination of a threat to international peace was also implicit in SCR 1160.
4. SCR 1199, 6th paragraph of the Preamble.
5. SCR 1199, operative paragraph 2.
6. SCR 1199, operative paragraph 4.
7. See, e.g., the paper circulated by the FCO amongst NATO Member States in October 1998 and reproduced in Roberts, “NATO's ‘Humanitarian War’ over Kosovo” 41 Survival (1999) 102 at 106, and the statement by the Secretary of State for Defence in the House of Commons on 25 March 1999.
8. See, e.g., the evidence given to this Committee by Mr A. I. Aust, Legal Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (HC Paper 235-iii, p.92).
9. HL Debs (1998–1999) WA 140, 16 Nov. 1998.
10. See, e.g., M. Littmann, QC, Kosovo: Law and Diplomacy (Centre for Policy Studies, 1999).
11. The FCO Banning Staff document “Is Intervention ever Justified?”, which came to the enigmatic conclusion that “the best case that can be made in support of humanitarian intervention is that it cannot be said to be unambiguously illegal” (Foreign Policy Document 148, para. 11.22), was written in 1984, during the Cold War and long before the Liberian and Iraqi interventions. The document is, in any event, a discussion paper, rather than an instance of United Kingdom State practice (see para. 11.2).
12. SCR 1199 (1998).
13. SCR 1203 (1998).