Nevertheless, all U.N. Peacekeepers are still subject to the Geneva Conventions which require all Nation-States to prosecute serious war crimes - without exemption.
What the Security Council has done is simply to cast suspicion upon its own Peacekeepers, while politicising the noble ideals of the long awaited International Criminal Court.
This was done in order to appease the war-like tendencies of the Bush Administration of the United States.
The United States is one of the Five Permanent Members of the Security Council having Veto Power over any U.N. Resolution. The others are China, France, Great Britain and Russia.
The United States had threatened to veto renewal of SFOR, the U.N. Peacekeeping Mission in Bosnia-Hercegovina, if it did not have its way. Experts warned that if the U.N. were to withdraw its Peacekeepers from Bosnia-Herzegovina, the entire region might descend into chaos. Such a possibility had to be avoided.
What the Security Council has done is simply to cast suspicion upon its own Peacekeepers, while politicising the noble ideals of the long awaited International Criminal Court.
This was done in order to appease the war-like tendencies of the Bush Administration of the United States.
The United States is one of the Five Permanent Members of the Security Council having Veto Power over any U.N. Resolution. The others are China, France, Great Britain and Russia.
The United States had threatened to veto renewal of SFOR, the U.N. Peacekeeping Mission in Bosnia-Hercegovina, if it did not have its way. Experts warned that if the U.N. were to withdraw its Peacekeepers from Bosnia-Herzegovina, the entire region might descend into chaos. Such a possibility had to be avoided.