Mr Rowlands 321. The government does not qualify. It does not say the UN resolution was per se justified. It just says that is the situation and that can justify an action of intervention. I think where you have intervention that is by regional organisation or arrangement, the determination made by that organisation that there is a real humanitarian necessity to act is stronger than when it is made by an individual state, but I think there is a danger in saying that you have to have a regional action because you do not always have regional organisations in every part of the world who are in a position to do that.
Some regional organisations are very much stronger than others.
NATO is in any event in a category of its own in relation to all of this. What I am suggesting is that whether there is an overwhelming humanitarian need to act is an objective question of fact which has to be approached in good faith in each case. It is obviously desirable, where possible, that the Security Council should take the decision if that necessity exists. I think there are two stages to it. In the Kosovo case, the Security Council jumped the first of those two fences but did not jump the second.