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The International Court of Justice (ICJ), which has its seat in The Hague(The Netherlands), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, on 8 july 1996 unanimously voted for this :

A threat or use of force by means of nuclear weapons that is contrary to Article 2, paragraph 4, of the United Nations Charter and that fails to meet all the requirements of Article 51, is unlawful;

The full document is very long and need to be studied carefully to find the real significance. I have not the competence to do that .
In Belgium we use this as an argument to put legal and political pressure on the government to force the US to  take away their nuclear bombs from Belgian territory. (The US has one such storage base here with estimated 10 bombs)So far we had little succes, but the political consensus about is growing and the arguments of the ICJ have a very important influence.

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Mon Apr 10th, 2006 at 10:28:55 AM EST
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