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Huzaifa Shaukat
5070FSL/LLB/F17
Section B
Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken
School of thoughts:
But here again there are two differing views: permissive and restrictive.
Permissive school
The ‘permissive school’ maintains that Article 51 does not restrict the
right of self-
defence to cases of armed attack only and that States have wider rights
of self-
self- defence, not restrict it. ...The right implicitly excepted was not
confined to
defence.
Restrictive school
The ‘restrictive school’ maintains that Article 51 restricts the right of
self-defence to
international law."
Charter permits states to use force only after another state has
launched an
states to use force without the consent of the UN Security Council only
if an act of
51, the expression ‘if an armed attack occurs’ is very clear and
unambiguous. The
relevance here.It is in conformity with the main purpose of the UN: non
use
practice.
As far as the armed attack is concerned ,In the Nicaragua case, the
World Court
ruled that
therein, But the Court does not believe that the concept of armed
attack includes
not only acts by armed bands where such acts occur on a significant
scale but
Many Western writers are of the view that the Caroline case is a classic