UN General Assembly
2001

“The sanctions regime against Iraq is unequivocally illegal under existing international humanitarian law and human rights law. Some would go as far as making a charge of genocide.” (E/CN.4/Sub.2/2000/33, para. 71) We therefore call for a comprehensive reform of the Security Council that would lead to the expansion of its membership and to the reform of its methods of work, with specific reference to its decision-making process, so as to ensure full respect by the Council for the purposes and principles of the Charter and the principle of democracy in international relations. It has also become necessary to establish a mechanism for judicial review that would rule on the legality and constitutionality of Security Council resolutions in order to ensure that they are consistent with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and with international law. We believe that Member States should be able to resort to the International Court of Justice to appeal resolutions of the Security Council which these States consider as involving infringement on the principles of the Charter and international law.