Beyond the Rhetoric: Facts and Interviews on U.N. Security Council Resolutions
The Bush administration has repeatedly cited violations of U.N. Security
Council resolutions as key reasons for its policy on Iraq. But several
nations have Security Council resolutions pending against them, including
Indonesia, Armenia and Croatia. And the violators with the most Security
Council resolutions -- more than Iraq -- are Israel (over 30), Turkey (over
20) and Morocco (over 15). A partial listing of U.N. Security Council
resolutions being violated by U.S. allies is available at:
http://www.Accuracy.org/sc
The following analysts are available for interviews:
STEPHEN ZUNES, (831) 234-9468, (415) 422-6981, (831) 425-2975,
stephen@coho.org, http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2002/0210unres.html
Zunes, who wrote the piece "United Nations Security Council Resolutions
Currently Being Violated by Countries Other Than Iraq," said today: "Bush
administration claims that it is concerned with the integrity of the United
Nations and the enforcement of Security Council resolutions are patently
disingenuous. The governments of Morocco, Israel and Turkey are each in
violation of more Security Council resolutions than is Iraq. Yet the United
States provides these Middle Eastern allies with the financial and military
wherewithal to continue their flaunting of the Security Council and basic
principles of international law." Zunes is the chair of the Peace and
Justice Studies Program at the University of San Francisco, the Middle East
editor for the Foreign Policy in Focus Project and author of the recently
released book "Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism."
The Bush administration has repeatedly cited violations of U.N. Security
Council resolutions as key reasons for its policy on Iraq. But several
nations have Security Council resolutions pending against them, including
Indonesia, Armenia and Croatia. And the violators with the most Security
Council resolutions -- more than Iraq -- are Israel (over 30), Turkey (over
20) and Morocco (over 15). A partial listing of U.N. Security Council
resolutions being violated by U.S. allies is available at:
http://www.Accuracy.org/sc
The following analysts are available for interviews:
STEPHEN ZUNES, (831) 234-9468, (415) 422-6981, (831) 425-2975,
stephen@coho.org, http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2002/0210unres.html
Zunes, who wrote the piece "United Nations Security Council Resolutions
Currently Being Violated by Countries Other Than Iraq," said today: "Bush
administration claims that it is concerned with the integrity of the United
Nations and the enforcement of Security Council resolutions are patently
disingenuous. The governments of Morocco, Israel and Turkey are each in
violation of more Security Council resolutions than is Iraq. Yet the United
States provides these Middle Eastern allies with the financial and military
wherewithal to continue their flaunting of the Security Council and basic
principles of international law." Zunes is the chair of the Peace and
Justice Studies Program at the University of San Francisco, the Middle East
editor for the Foreign Policy in Focus Project and author of the recently
released book "Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism."