The Interpretation of Security Council Resolutions

Abstract

When the rules and methods of interpretation in international law have been considered this has been almost exclusively in relation to treaties. 1 Little attention has been paid to the principles governing interpretation of other instruments, such as resolutions of international organs and conferences. Such authority as there is on the interpretation of resolutions of the United Nations Security Council (SCRs) appears to be directed primarily to a single question: whether an SCR is binding? 2 When SCRs are inter-This article is based on a talk given at the Research Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge on 28 April 1995. The views expressed are personal, not those of the United Kingdom Government. M.K. Yasseen, "Linterpretation des traites d'apres la Convention de Vienne sur le Droit des Traites",

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