The legality of UN Security Council resolutions related to the occupation of Iraq

Abstract

The Council has issued under the powers granted to it under Chapter VII of the Charter many resolutions, which raised a legal controversy about the mechanism of the Council in cooperation with international crises, due to the randomness of these resolutions, which in turn contributed directly to the occupation of Iraq, and the opportunity arose for the United States of America to disrupt any real effort to resolve the Iraqi crisis by peaceful means. Based on that, the United States began to use the UN Security Council as a tool through which to achieve its interests and goals In the nineties of the last century, after the collapse of the Soviet Union (formerly) and the sole control of the United States of America, where this Council turned into a device for issuing sanctions resolutions against peoples and legitimizing the policy of unilateral power, and its political vision of international affairs and sources of threat and settlement to serve American interests in particular ,  Based on the powers granted to the Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter, the Security Council issued from 2 August 1990 until April 1991, during ten resolutions, all of which raised and continue to raise many questions about the way in which the Security Council deals with crises in terms of speed and timing, as all of them are characterized by haste and strictness and work to prepare international resolutions, to strike Iraq away from serious work to find a sound settlement to this crisis. International security, especially the United States of America, to disrupt any real effort  To resolve the existing crisis peacefully, although the initiatives were among the initiatives presented at the time by other international parties.