UN mandate
In general, the term “ mandate ” in international law refers to an order given to a state or federation of states to represent state and international law matters in a certain foreign territory.
Thus, the term “ UN mandate ” (more rarely also UN mandate ) colloquially describes a mandate that was issued by the United Nations Security Council as part of a resolution . Such a resolution is necessary because states generally have state sovereignty and are protected from the influence of other states by the “ principle of non-interference ”.
Such a mandate from the UN can according to Chapter VI of the Charter of the United Nations the "peaceful settlement of disputes" as well as acc. Chapter VII include measures in the event of "threats to or breach of peace and acts of aggression". It is necessary to intervene in the sovereignty of the affected state.
As a rule, this is used to legitimize international peace missions, other peacekeeping or peacebuilding measures or other military interventions within the framework of international law for which the state concerned has not given the express consent.
One speaks of a so-called “robust mandate” if the armed forces deployed in accordance with Chapter VII of the UN Charter can carry out “the measures necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security”, which in principle also includes the use of armed force to a certain extent specified in the individual case. With a so-called “robust mandate”, a. the UN peacekeeping missions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , MONUSCO , and in Kosovo , UNMIK .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ mandate. Duden, accessed in 2017 .
- ^ TG Weiss, S. Daws (Ed.): The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations . Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-956010-3 .
- ↑ Charter of the United Nations. UN, accessed 2017 .
- ↑ Resolution 2348 of the UN Security Council. UN, accessed 2017 .
- ↑ Resolution 1244 of the UN Security Council. UN, 1999, accessed 2017 .