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2 unusual facts about Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter


Chapter Seven

Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, the chapter that sets out the UN Security Council's powers to maintain peace

Legality of the Vietnam War

Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter prohibits war that is not to maintain or restore international peace (Article 42) or undertaken in self-defense (Article 51).


United Nations Security Council Resolution 1565

Acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, the Council extended MONUC's mandate and authorised an increase of 5,900 personnel, with deployments in North and South Kivu.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1566

Acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, it set up a working group to consider recommendations on measures to be imposed against "individuals, groups or entities involved in or associated with terrorist activities" not already identified by its Al-Qaeda and Taliban sanctions committee.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1931

Acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, the Council reaffirmed the necessity of the trial of those indicted by the ICTY and called for full co-operation from all states, particularly those in the former Yugoslavia, with regard to the arrests of Ratko Mladić and Goran Hadžić.


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