Resolution 2178 a playbook for global action against #ForeignTerrorists. Requires states to block their recruiting, organizing, and travel.
— Samantha Power (@AmbassadorPower) September 24, 2014
#UNSC just adopted resolution 2178, the UNSC's most significant action vs global terror since res. 1373 weeks after 9/11. #ForeignTerrorists
— Samantha Power (@AmbassadorPower) September 24, 2014
@AmbassadorPower Except that Resolution 2178 is meaningless. There is no legal definition of "terrorism". It wouldn't hold up at Nuremberg
— Neil Kitson (@nkitson) September 27, 2014
@AmbassadorPower..the invasion of Iraq on the other hand, would not have gone over well at Nuremberg.http://t.co/n6kaKy0P1y They hung Keitel
— Neil Kitson (@nkitson) September 27, 2014
UN Charter
Article 2
The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the Purposes stated in Article 1, shall act in accordance with the following Principles.
- The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members.
- All Members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits resulting from membership, shall fulfill in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the present Charter.
- All Members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered.
- All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.
- All Members shall give the United Nations every assistance in any action it takes in accordance with the present Charter, and shall refrain from giving assistance to any state against which the United Nations is taking preventive or enforcement action.
- The Organization shall ensure that states which are not Members of the United Nations act in accordance with these Principles so far as may be necessary for the maintenance of international peace and security.
- Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the Members to submit such matters to settlement under the present Charter; but this principle shall not prejudice the application of enforcement measures under Chapter Vll.
