The Economical Impact Of United Nations Sanctions On Iraq (1990–2003)
- IJLLR Journal
- Jun 4
- 2 min read
Alok Pratap Singh, BBA LLB, Central University of South Bihar
Introduction:
The United Nations (UN), established in 1945 in the aftermath of World War II. United Nation serves as a principle international organization tasked with maintaining global peace, security, and cooperation among states. For the implementation of the global peace and security the United Nation uses one of the most important tools known as “sanctions”. As per the Article 41 of United Nation Charter the Security Council may invoke non-military measures to enforce its decisions, which include interrupting economic, transport, and communication links, as well as breaking diplomatic relations. Till now there are many countries and individuals on which the different types of sanctions were imposed. Some of the sanctions have been successfully achieved their goals and many are failed due to many reasons.
One of the most controversial and landmark case of sanction is of the Iraq (1990). In this case, Iraq has faced many serious problems like economic collapse, humanitarian crises, international isolation and many more. Although, the objective of sanctions were successful in the eyes of United Nation but for the Iraqis it was more dangerous than the sanctions. It is one of the landmark case that developed the concept of imposition of sanctions. In this assignment it is going to be discuss about the effectiveness of sanction in the case of Iraq (1990) on the both (paper as well as the ground) levels.
Reasons for tension between Iraq and Kuwait:
After the Iran-Iraq war lasted for nearly eight years. Due to this war the financial condition of the Iraq was very bad and there were many loans were taken from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other gulf States by Iraq during the time of Iran-Iraq war. At this time there was the regime of Saddam Hussain and he argued that:
Kuwait and UAE should consider the loans as payments to Iraq for the protecting the
Arabian Peninsula form the Iranian expansionism, but they refused to forgive the debt.
Accused Kuwait for over producing crude oil for export and depressing prices and also alleged that Kuwait was slant drilling of crude oil from the oil reserve of Iraq.
These were these 2 main reasons that increases the tension between Iraq and Kuwait.
