12 July 2016

S/RES/687 (1991)

On the date of 2 July 2009 the United States of America added the name of the Kata'ib Hezbollah faction to the State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organisations, nine days later, on 11 July 2009, Kata'ib Hezbollah registered a U.S. hosted website.

The United States has alleged prior to the cited July dates, that this faction has engaged in attacks on their servicemen.

The Security Council is deemed to maintain plenary authority, therefore it cannot divest itself of its decision on Resolution 687, that on this 7th day of the month of shawwal of the Arabic calendar year 1437 the Resolution's defined Coalition is evidenced as in "material breach" of the said Resolution's article 32.

32. Requires Iraq to inform the Security Council that it will not commit or support any act of international terrorism or allow any organization directed towards commission of such acts to operate within its territory and to condemn unequivocally and renounce all acts, methods and practices of terrorism;

The Security Council must be convened and adopt a resolution that there should be an immediate cessation of hostilities perpetrated by Coalition states, and recognising the legitimate representation of the Iraqi state as that government extant at the onset of aggressions in March of 2003.

See: Kata'ib Hezbollah