From: [email protected] (Michael H. Riddle)
Newsgroups: alt.desert-storm.facts
Subject: Re: U.N. Resolution 666
Date: 26 Feb 91 02:21:22 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln

In <[email protected]> [email protected] (Jim Reynolds (37633)) writes:


>Need some help with my facts. Every since early August '90, I've been trying
>to track down (not very doggedly however) the contents of the United Nations
>Security Council Resolution 666, but w/o luck. CNN recently (and only for a
>short duration) started listing these resolutions before going to their ads.
>Never saw 666. I believe they start at 660 (the main one) and go to 678 and
>there are 12 total. So, it's easy to believe Resolution 666 has nothing to
>do w/ the Gulf War, and may have been allocated to Lithuania, Albania, or who
>knows. *** Or like numbering floors in a skyscraper and omitting #13, do you
>think 666 was intentionally bypassed for the Gulf? ***

No, I doubt it.  Here is the text as provided by the group conference "For
Lawyers Only" on another.network:

UNITED
NATIONS
_________________________________________________________________
           Security Council
                                               Distr.
                                               GENERAL

                                               S/RES/666 (1990)
                                               13 September 1990



=================================================================

                     RESOLUTION 666 (1990)

    _Adopted by the Security Council at its 2939th meeting_,
                     _on 13 September 1990_


   _The Security Council_,

   _Recalling_ its resolution 661 (1990), paragraphs 3 (c) and 4
of which apply, except in humanitarian circumstances, to
foodstuffs,

   _Recognizing_ that circumstances may arise in which it will
be necessary for foodstuffs to be supplied to the civilian
population in Iraq or Kuwait in order to relieve human suffering,

   _Noting_ that in this respect the Committee established under
paragraph 6 of that resolution has received communications from
several Member States,

   _Emphasizing_ that it is for the Security Council, alone or
acting through the Committee, to determine whether humanitarian
circumstances have arisen,

   _Deeply concerned_ that Iraq has failed to comply with its
obligations under Security Council resolution 664 (1990) in
respect of the safety and well-being of third State nationals,
and reaffirming that Iraq retains full responsibility in this
regard under international humanitarian law including, where
applicable, the Fourth Geneva Convention,

   _Acting_ under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United
Nations,

   1.  _Decides_ that in order to make the necessary
determination whether or not for the purposes of paragraph 3 (c)
and paragraph 4 of resolution 661 (1990) humanitarian
circumstances have arisen, the Committee shall keep the situation
regarding foodstuffs in Iraq and Kuwait under constant review;

   2.  _Expects_ Iraq to comply with its obligations under
Security Council resolution 664 (1990) in respect of third State
nationals and reaffirms that Iraq remains fully responsible for
their safety and well-being in accordance with international
humanitarian law including, where applicable, the Fourth Geneva
Convention;

   3.  _Requests_, for the purposes of paragraphs 1 and 2 of
this resolution, that the Secretary-General seek urgently, and on
a continuing basis, information from relevant United Nations and
other appropriate humanitarian agencies and all other sources on
the availability of food in Iraq and Kuwait, such information to
be communicated by the Secretary-General to the Committee
regularly;

   4.  _Requests further_ that in seeking and supplying such
information particular attention will be paid to such categories
of persons who might suffer specially, such as children under 15
years of age, expectant mothers, maternity cases, the sick and
the elderly;

   5.  _Decides_ that if the Committee, after receiving the
reports from the Secretary-General, determines that circumstances
have arisen in which there is an urgent humanitarian need to
supply foodstufs to Iraq or Kuwait in order to relieve human
suffering, it will report promptly to the Council its decision as
t how such need should be met;

   6.  _Directs_ the Committee that in formulating its decisions
it should bear in mind that foodstufs should be provided through
the United Nations in co-operation with the International
Committee of the Red Cross or other appropriate humanitarian
agencies and distributed by them or under their supervision in
order to ensure that they reach the intended beneficiaries;

   7.  _Requests_ the Secretary-General to use his good offices
to facilitate the delivery and distribution of foodstuffs to
Kuwait and Iraq in accordance with the provisions of this and
other relevant resolutions;

   8.  _Recalls_ that resolution 661 (1990) does not apply to
supplies intended strictly for medical purposes, but in this
connection recommends that medical supplies should be exported
under the strict supervision of the Government of the exporting
State or by appropriate humanitarian agencies.


            [Adopted by a vote of 13-2, Cuba and Yemen opposed.]



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