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NORWAY POST
9. Mars 2003
Oslo Bishop proposes
new UN solution to Iraq crisis
If the UN Security Council is not able to agree on a
solution to the Iraq crisis, the issue should be turned
over the the General Assembly, says Oslo Bishop Gunnar
Staalsett in a letter to the Norwegian Government.
The letter is also signed by several scholars.
-We demand that Norway play an active part in the work
to transfer the Iraq issue to the General Assembly. This
would truly be to follow the "UN track", the
letter states.
Staalsett believes that the Assembly should reactivate
resolution 377 from 1950, which so far has been little
used.
The resolution, named "Uniting for Peace",
opens for the ossibility that issues which the Security
Council is not able to agree on, may be transferred to
the General Assembly, if the situation in question is
a threat to peace.
In order to turn the matter over to the General Assembly,
seven of the Security Council member nations, or a majority
of all UN members support such a move.
This is where Staalsett and the others who are behind
the letter, demand that Norway play an active part.
-The Government should take an initiative towards other
nations which are not memebers of the Security Council,
or Norway could influence the Security Council to take
the issue before the General Assembly, Staalsett says.
(NRK)
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