Sanctions
The primary responsibility of the Security Council is to maintain world peace and avert threats against international security. Chapter VII, Article 41 of the UN Charter provides measures not involving the use of armed weapons. Such measures usually involve sanctions.
UN Charter, Chapter VII, Article 41
"The Security Council may decide what measures not involving the use of armed force are to be employed to give effect to its decisions, and it may call upon the Members of the United Nations to apply such measures. These may include complete or partial interruption of economic relations and of rail, sea, air, postal, telegraphic, radio, and other means of communication, and the severance of diplomatic relations."
Sanctions and sanctions committees
If a country does not comply with the Security Council resolutions, the council may decide on peace enforcement measures under Chapter VII, Article 41 of the UN Charter to maintain or restore peace and security. It usually involve various forms of sanctions, such as diplomatic, cultural and sporting exchanges, air links and trade. Other countries will be prompted to discontinue its relationship with the country. The council may also use arms embargo to reduce the availability of weapons and thus force a peaceful solution. The council has several sanctions committees involved, to monitor sanctions have effect.
More on UN and sanctions
- Repertoire of the Practice of the Security Council. The Repertoire provides an analysis of the actions related to sanctions taken by the Council and its subsidiaries.
- Actions with Respect to Threats to the Peace, Breaches of the Peace, and Acts of Aggression (Part VII). The Repertoire covers implicit references and explicit references to Chapter VII and Articles 39 to 51 of the Charter in documents of the Security Council, as well as case studies.
- Sanctions and Other Committees. This page covers all of the committees that were created by the Security Council in connection with mandatory measures. It provides a short description, as well as links to the sections covering them in The Repertoire.
Literature
- The Charter of the United Nations : a commentary Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 by Simma, Bruno; Khan, Daniel-Erasmus; Nolte, Georg; Paulus, Andreas.
Key UN documents
- UN Charter in Swedish | in English
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- Yearbook of the United Nations
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Swedish | in English
- Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
- Statue of the International Court of Justice
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- United Nations Documents Index (in United Nations Digital Library). References to all documents by subject area are published. A collection of indexes is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld and Law Library, Uppsala, Sweden and the UN Library in New York and the UN library in Geneva.