Iraq Mission Goes to the Constitutional Court
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A group of Macedonian human rights activists are waiting for the Parliament to approve the Government’s decision to send a new contingent of soldiers to Iraq and then dispute it at the Constitutional Court, since, in theri view, Iraq is not a peace mission.
According to Žarko Trajanovski, a peace activist, the Freedom for Iraq mission is not on the UN’s list of peace missions, and is considered illegitimate. - Our country, through its involvement, has taken sides in the war, earning us enemies and costing us money from the Budget, says Trajanovski. The activists remind that over one half of the countries initially involved in the mission have already pulled their forces out of Iraq. Also, they deny Government claims that the mission is related to Macedonia’s ambitions for NATO membership, since this is not NATO mission at all, failing to meet the two-thirds of the alliance members participation requirement to qualify as such. |
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