Sentence examples for council mandate from inspiring English sources
Those options include extending the Council mandate beyond 2008 while the claims issue is sorted out.
Military action would also probably require a UN security council mandate and would probably run into a Russian veto.
But the ethos has been severely challenged by the fallout from the security council mandate for military intervention in the 2011 Libyan revolution to protect civilians in Benghazi.
R2P, established in 2005, could be advanced as a legal justification in Syria, but its validity in the absence of a security council mandate is in dispute.
Moscow and Beijing were highly critical of the no-fly zone established by Nato to protect civilians during last year's Libyan revolt against long-time dictator Muammar Gaddafi, saying its enforcement went beyond the security council mandate.
Who took on the right to execute this man, no matter who he is?" The Russian leader said the actions were now going beyond the United Nations security council mandate passed last month in which Russia and China abstained.
It tests Beijing's patience to the limits, giving it very little option but to go along with a new round of UN security council mandated sanctions.
His colleagues in the armed forces' governing council mandated him to run last Monday – and his popularity is so high among certain sections of the population that he is expected to win by a landslide.
The Agenda for Peace also insisted on new measures to end the UN's chronic financial crisis, and on greater use of regional organisations for the implementation of security council mandates.
By adopting resolution 1973 the security council mandated Nato action in order to protect civilian lives, and nobody pretends that the regime could have been overthrown without that air, sea and logistical support.
The UN security council mandated two experts, American Michael Sharp and Swedish Zaida Catalán, to investigate this incident as well as reports of gross human rights violations and the discovery of four mass graves.
