See, e.g. Chemical Weapons, Convention Implementation Act of 1997. Above all, the Security Council must act now to end the sanctions against Iraq. They are the direct cause of the deaths of a million and a half people, the majority infants, children, chronically ill persons and the elderly. They are genocide as defined by the Convention Against Genocide, and take several hundred more lives each day. There can be no link between these sanctions which afflict the weakest members of society and any acts of the government of Iraq.
International law prohibits the use of starvation as a weapon even in times of war.
In this moment of crisis, the Security Council and the General Assembly must renounce all sanctions which impact on an entire society, killing and injuring its most vulnerable members. It must prohibit the use of punitive missile and air strikes by one nation against another and specifically a super power against a defenseless people.