Libya mission was intervention, not R2P

Published November 16, 2011

The United Nations Security Council recently voted to end the NATO mandate in Libya under Resolution 1973.

This means, in effect, that the Security Council, which officially approved the establishment of a no-fly zone over Libya and the NATO takeover of the mission under Chapter VIII of the UN Charter, has decided that the purposes of the humanitarian mission have been met in full. The death of Muammar...

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