[E-rundbrief] Info 528 - TFF: Tension UK-Iran - Hague Convention

[Matthias Reichl]

E-Rundbrief - Info 528 - Transnational Foundation 
for Peace and Future Research/ TFF (Sweden): 
Watch how the tension is building up between the 
U.K. and Iran - related as it is to a larger, 
very dangerous conflict. Francis A Boyle: For 
Iran and the UK: Invoke the Hague Convention for Pacific Settlement now!

Bad Ischl, 30.3.2007

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Watch how the tension is building up between the 
U.K. and Iran - related as it is to a larger, very dangerous conflict.

By Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research/ TFF

Lund, Sweden, March 30, 2007

The world is watching the angry men and hears 
their uncompromising words. Violence lurks in every move.

Instead of investigating the facts, the Security 
Council - with a permanent majority of U.K. 
friends - urges the release of the sailors, no 
one imagining it had reprimanded the U.K. for 
violating borders? And UN S-G Ban Ki-moon 
"expressed his wish to see an early resolution of this problem."

But moments that could lead to nuclear war and 
mass destruction are hardly moments for premature judgement or nice wishes.

Doesn't humankind really have better, more 
intelligent ways? How come the United Nations 
itself does not point to a perfectly logical 
international legal procedure to mitigate and solve the conflict?

These are questions you will ask when you read 
international law professor and TFF Associate, 
Francis A. Boyle's,  little 12-liner proposal here.

Why on earth has this not been suggested by world 
leaders, commentators and the UN long ago? Has 
the whole world forgotten that law can be a tool 
to secure world order, fairness and prevent wars?

Please read Francis Boyle's 12-line proposal and spread the idea
http://www.transnational.org/Area_MiddleEast/2007/Boyle_Hague_UK-Iran.html:

For Iran and the UK:

Invoke the Hague Convention for Pacific Settlement now!

By Francis A Boyle, TFF Associate

March 30, 2007

The rising tension between Iran and the United 
Kingdom over the sailors makes it urgently 
relevant to invoke the 1899 Hague Convention for 
Pacific Settlement of International Disputes! - 
says Francis A. Boyle, a world authority on international law.

Both Iran and the United Kingdom are contracting 
parties to the 1899 Hague Convention for the 
Pacific Settlement of International Disputes.

Title III of the 1899 Convention  created a 
procedure for the formation of international 
commissions of inquiry to investigate, ascertain 
and report on international differences involving 
neither honor nor vital interests, and arising 
from disputed points of fact that could not be 
settled by means of diplomacy (article 9).

An International Commission of Inquiry is 
precisely what is called for here to resolve their dispute over the Sailors.

Hence I would encourage  everyone to pressure the 
Governments of both Iran and the United Kingdom 
to publicly invoke the 1899 Convention and 
request the immediate organization of such a 
Commission to de-escalate this crisis that could 
readily precipitate World War III.

  For more details on these Commissions with 
further references, see my book Foundations of 
World Order (Duke University Press:1999).

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