Research Guides : International Responses to Syrian Conflict, Military Intervention, and Chemical Weapons: International Principles

Aggression

General Assembly Resolutions

A/RES/25/2625 - Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations (1975)
A/RES/29/3314 - Definition of Aggression (1974)

Rome Statute

Resolution RC/Res.6, Annex III, The Crime of Aggression, Annex to the Rome Statute (June 11, 2010)

ILC Draft Code

01/14/2014 - Statement by U.K. Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Major statement by the U.K. on unilateral humanitarian intervention and responsibility to protect.
09/11/2013 - Secretary-General Remarks to the General Assembly
Mentions Syria as a case in point.
Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
U.N. website regarding the responsibility to protect.
U.N. Documents, Publications and Statements
International Coalition for the Right to Protect
This group brings together NGOs working to prevent and halt genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity and mobilize NGOs to push for action in country-specific situations.
U.N. Secretary-General, The role of regional and subregional arrangements in implementing the responsibility to protect, U.N. Doc. A/65/877–S/2011/393, (June 2011)
The role of regional and subregional arrangements in
implementing the responsibility to protect
2005 World Summit Outcome, G.A. Res. 60/1, U.N. Doc. A/RES/60/1 (Sept. 16, 2005)
Responsibility to protect doctrine (§138-140) was initially accepted in this General Assembly resolution.

Final Act of the Helsinki Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe
11/18/1987 - A/Res/42/22
Declaration on the Enhancement of the Effectiveness of the Principle of Refraining from the Threat or Use of Force in International Relations
12/09/1981 - A/RES/36/103
Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention and Interference in the Internal Affairs of States
10/24/1970 - A/RES/25/2625
Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations
Art. 2 (4) U.N. Charter
"All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations."
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Charter of the United Nations (done at San Francisco, United States, on 26 June 1945) (United Nations [UN]) 892 UNTS 119, 59 Stat 1031, TS 993, 3 Bevans 1153, 145 BSP 805, Ch.I Purposes and Principles, Art.2(4)
1928 - Kellog-Briand Pact
Treaty between the United States and other Powers providing for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy