MOSCOW,
March 17 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - An attack on Iraq has
no legal basis under existing United Nations Security Council
resolutions, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said Monday, March 17.
"Resolution
1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force,"
Russia's top diplomat said in an official statement before departing for
New York.
"Russia
believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security
Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring
international security."
Ivanov
was apparently commenting on the war trio’s - U.S., Britain, and Spain
- argument that existing Security Council resolutions on Iraq - notably
1441 - give them legal basis to attack Iraq.
The
British Government's most senior legal adviser claimed that military
action against Iraq is authorized under existing UN Security Council
resolutions.
Statements
by U.S., British and Spanish officials have been trying to sell the same
message during the last few days.
