Sentence examples for on a second resolution from inspiring English sources
Agreement on a second resolution might still be possible.
Therefore, with the United States determined to go to war, it was imperative to avoid a vote on a second resolution, which might have failed and would have been vetoed even if it had passed.
Many of the council's rotating members are just as reluctant to alienate France, the leader of the anti-war coalition, or fear the domestic political consequences of supporting a war that so many of their voters oppose.Along with the permanent five, four of the rotating members have already said which way they would go on a second resolution.
But America and Britain, its main ally, maintained that Iraqi co-operation was grudging and that Saddam remained in defiance of UN resolutions by deceiving the world.America has called for a vote to be taken within the next few days by the 15-member Security Council on a second resolution condemning Saddam.
On 14 February 2003, he addressed the UN in opposition to a second resolution on Iraq, earning loud applause.
See articleAt a meeting in Berlin, foreign ministers from America, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China agreed on the draft of a third resolution on Iran that will shortly be put to the United Nations Security Council.
Considering Britain and America's disregard for a second resolution in deciding on war with Iraq, it would be a brave move if Tony Blair were to remind Congress of the endorsement it gave Attlee's UN proposals in 1945.
Mr Chirac justifies blocking a second resolution on Iraq by arguing that it is a noble thing to avert a needless war.
If Mr Hussein refused to comply, the world would have to consider a second resolution on whether there should or should not be an intervention.
The possibility remains that the French and others accepted OP12 because in their view it gave them a sufficient basis on which to argue that a second resolution was required (even if that was not made expressly clear).
But he has also indicated that Britain would consider France's proposal to have a two-tiered approach, with the Security Council first adopting a resolution to compel Iraq to cooperate with international weapons inspectors, and then, if Iraq failed to comply, adopting a second resolution on military force.
