1. A new phase in the development of international law is thus being adumbrated which tempts to reconcile in law a supreme political imperative (the full independence of the nation-state) with a moral requirement (the desire to save thousands of human beings threatened with extermination).

Une telle position du Conseil de Sécurité et de la communauté internationale semble aller à l'encontre de l'article 2 de la Charte des Nations Unies sur la non intervention dans les affaires intérieures d'un Etat.