آليات مجلس الامن في نزع الاسلحة المحرمة دولياً

Ahmed Mohamed Mahal

Abstract

This study dealt with the mechanisms of the United Nations Security Council in the field of disarmament of internationally prohibited weapons. This issue is one of the issues that has received keen attention from the international community. In view of the risks posed by internationally prohibited weapons (conventional and non-conventional) that threaten international peace and security, and the effects that these risks entail on living organisms as well as the environment, and as a result lead to international instability.
Therefore, international efforts have turned to putting an end to the possession and spread of weapons of mass destruction, as well as banning and restricting some conventional weapons, and ridding the world of their deadly dangers. These efforts are represented in international agreements, as these agreements are an effective step towards limiting the spread and use of these weapons.
As well as the role of the UN Security Council, which is considered the executive body of the United Nations, and which acts as a representative of the member states with the task assigned to it in accordance with Article 24 of the United Nations Charter, and because of the broad powers granted to it in accordance with the United Nations Charter.
We note that the role of the Security Council began to emerge in the field of disarming internationally prohibited weapons in the nineties of the last century, specifically in 1991 when the Security Council issued Resolution 687 on the issue of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. However, before this role, the Security Council had efforts to disarm Nuclear weapons, and before the adoption of the Nuclear Weapons Convention in 1968, represented by the guarantees proposed by the nuclear states and the adoption of Resolutions 255 and 984, in addition to its resolution 1540 of 2004, in which it decided a general and comprehensive ban on all types of weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical, and biological), after that it took The role of the Security Council became more prominent when it exercised its powers granted to it in the Charter by imposing economic sanctions on countries that violate the provisions of international law and other agreements related to these weapons, in addition to the role of the Council in international humanitarian intervention in some cases, as the Council transformed from an instrument for maintaining international peace and security into A means of implementing the obligations imposed in those agreements
Since the subject of this study relates to the mechanisms of the UN Security Council in the field of disarmament of internationally prohibited weapons, we decided to begin studying the concept of the UN Security Council and everything related to its composition and decision-making mechanism, as well as explaining the concept of internationally prohibited weapons, their types, dangers, and historical development, and the international agreements that stipulate Prohibiting and restricting the spread of these weapons. We then explain the role of the UN Security Council and the powers granted to it in accordance with Chapters Six and Seven of the United Nations Charter, while explaining the Security Council’s mechanisms for removing, prohibiting and restricting these weapons, represented by the resolutions of the UN Security Council and the efforts of the International Agency. Atomic energy, whether it is the non-judicial mechanisms of the Security Council, such as economic sanctions or its humanitarian intervention in some cases, or its judicial mechanisms, such as its authority to refer some cases to the International Criminal Court or request a postponement of the investigation into them, then we address at the end of the tagged message the most important results that we have reached. Through the research, we then present some recommendations related to the topic of our thesis, especially with regard to reform of the Security Council and the United Nations Charter.