The Security Council has in the past authorized such coalitions to act, as it did with the largely Australian force that intervened in East Timor, also in 1999.
Israel announced today that it would recall its ambassador to Vienna if President Thomas Klestil of Austria authorized a new coalition government that included the rightist Freedom Party led by Jorg Haider.
In 1991, the UN authorized a US-led coalithat that repulsed the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
More than 20,000 Syrian troops joined the UN-authorized coalition in Saudi Arabia, and Syrian forces helped liberate Kuwait from Iraq during the brief 1991 war.
(A notable exception was a Security Council resolution in 1950 authorizing a US-led coalitoon to repel the North Korean invasion of South Korea, passed in the absence of the USSR).
Last Thursday the UN Security Council voted 10-0 (with China, Russia, Germany, India, and Brazil abstaining) to authorize an international coalition to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya to protect Libyan citizens threatened by Muammar Qaddaffi's air strikes.
For example, it authorized a U.S.-led military coalition to expel Iraqi forces that had invaded Kuwait in 1991, imposed damaging economic sanctions on Baghdad, and mandated unusually intrusive inspections of Iraqi weapons development.
In addition, contract security will not be authorized to guard U.S. or coalition military supply routes, military facilities, military personnel or military property".
After all, Hussein had attacked a neighboring country, the use of force was authorized by the Security Council and there was a real coalition of disparate nations opposed to Iraqi aggression.
"It's been a tough week for us — the loss of Ramadi was particularly difficult," said a coalition trainer in Iraq, who was not authorized to speak on the record.
Hurley presented a coalition plan to Mao that he said was authorized by Chiang and whose terms were actually favorable to the Communists.
