A Memorial for Bosnia: Framework of Legal Arguments Concerning the Lawfulness of the Maintenance of the United Nations Security Council's Arms Embargo on Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Abid Qureshi

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Paul Michell

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Peter Copeland

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Francis Chang

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Craig Scott

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

Jasminka Kalajdzic

University of Windsor - Faculty of Law

Date Written: April 1, 1994

Abstract

This Memorial seeks to present a framework of legal arguments with respect to the validity and and legal effects of an arms embargo emposed by United Nations Security Council Resolution 713 in September 1991 on the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Yugoslavia), before its dissolution, and since treated as being in force with respect to the new states that have succeeded Yugoslavia. More particularly, the Memorial addresses the legality of maintaining (or at least, having maintained during the crucial time period) the arms embargo in force, either de jure or de facto, against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnia) in light of evdience that the arm's embargo's maintenance vis-a-vis Bosnia has contributed to the inability of the Government of Bosnia to prevent the perpetration on Bosnia's territory of acts of genocide by Bosnian Serb forces as well as combined acts of genocide and aggression by the neighboring state of Serbia and Montenegro (Serbia). [Co-authored with Craig Scott, Abid Qureshi, Paul Michell, Peter Copeland and Francis Chang]

Keywords: international law, laws of war, genocide, United Nations Charter, jus cogens

JEL Classification: K33

Suggested Citation

Qureshi, Abid and Michell, Paul and Copeland, Peter and Chang, Francis and Scott, Craig M. and Kalajdzic, Jasminka, A Memorial for Bosnia: Framework of Legal Arguments Concerning the Lawfulness of the Maintenance of the United Nations Security Council's Arms Embargo on Bosnia and Herzegovina (April 1, 1994). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1661863 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1661863

Abid Qureshi

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Paul Michell

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Peter Copeland

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Francis Chang

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Craig M. Scott

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School ( email )

Canada

HOME PAGE: http://craigscott.ndp.ca

Jasminka Kalajdzic (Contact Author)

University of Windsor - Faculty of Law ( email )

401 Sunset Avenue
Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4 N9B 3P4
Canada

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