UN Security Council resolution 794

UN Security Council Resolution 794
Date:	3rd December 1992
Meeting:	3145
Identifier:	S / RES / 794 ( document )
Poll:	Pro: 15  Ent. : 0  Cons: 0
Object:	Somalia
Result:	Accepted
Composition of the Security Council 1992:
Permanent members:
CHN FRA GBR RUS USA
Non-permanent members:
AUT BEL CPV ECU HUN
IND JPN MAR VEN TWO

The Resolution 794 of the UN Security Council of 3 December 1992 deals with - from civil war and famine drawn - Situation in Somalia and authorized the US-led UNITAF / Operation Restore Hope .

The resolution literally welcomes the offer of a member country - the USA - to put together a mission to create a safe environment for humanitarian aid in Somalia, and the offers of other countries to support this mission. UNITAF is authorized to use “all necessary means” (and thus, in contrast to the existing UN peace mission UNOSOM , also force) to achieve the stated goal .

The resolution was passed by the United Nations Security Council at its 3145th session.

Resolution 794 of the Security Council can be described as a milestone in the practice of the Security Council, since otherwise, in order to assess a situation as a “threat to peace” according to Art. 39 UN Charter, reference was not made to the internal situation, but to the flows of refugees which the Could destabilize the region. Resolution 794, on the other hand, does not address the risk of refugee flows, but refers to the internal situation in Somalia. Actually, according to Article 2, Paragraph 7 of the UN Charter, the Security Council is not authorized to interfere in the internal affairs of a state. In this respect, the situation in Somalia discussed in resolution 794 is not, in the eyes of the Security Council, an issue that “by its nature belongs to the internal competence of a state”.

Web links

Wikisource: United Nations Security Council Resolution 794  - Sources and full texts (English)

• Nils Goede: The Intervention of the United Nations in Somalia. An analysis of the decision-making processes in the Security Council for Resolution 794 . (PDF; 821 kB) INEF report No. 98, 2009 Duisburg.