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Prior to 2002, the Security Council had passed 16 resolutions on Iraq.In 2002, the Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1441.. In 2003, the governments of the US, Britain, and Spain proposed another resolution on Iraq, which they called the "eighteenth resolution" and others called the "second resolution."
The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (short title) (Pub. L. 102–1) or Joint Resolution to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 (official title), was the United States Congress's January 14, 1991, authorization of the use of U.S. military force in the Gulf War.
To authorize the use of the United States Armed Forces, pursuant to a new resolution of the United Nations Security Council, to destroy, remove, or render harmless Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, nuclear weapons-usable material, long-range ballistic missiles, and related facilities, and for other purposes. Sponsored by Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI ...
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday to end the U.N. political mission in Iraq established in 2003 following the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein to coordinate post ...
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441 is a United Nations Security Council resolution adopted unanimously by the United Nations Security Council on 8 November 2002, offering Iraq under Saddam Hussein "a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations" that had been set out in several previous resolutions (Resolutions 660 ...
The decisions of the Council are known as United Nations Security Council Resolutions. There have been three major events in Iraq's history for which the UN has passed numerous resolutions: the Iran–Iraq War , the Persian Gulf War , and the Iraq disarmament crisis leading up to and following the 2003 invasion of Iraq .
The Security Council, invoking Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, offered Iraq one final chance to implement Resolution 660 (1990) which demanded that Iraq withdraw its forces unconditionally from Kuwait and return them to the positions in which they were located on 1 August 1990, the day before the invasion of Kuwait began. [citation ...
On February 5, 2003, the Secretary of State of the United States Colin Powell gave a PowerPoint presentation [1] [2] to the United Nations Security Council. He explained the rationale for the Iraq War which would start on March 19, 2003 with the invasion of Iraq. The decision to invade Iraq had already been made prior to the presentation being ...