THE PERMISSIBILITY OF ARMED INTERVENTIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATIONALS ABROAD

Abstract

Člankom 2(4) Povelje Ujedinjenih naroda zabranjene su upotreba sile i prijetnja silom usmjerene protiv teritorijalne cjelovitosti i političke nezavisnosti bilo koje države ili na bilo koji način nespojive s ciljevima Ujedinjenih naroda. S obzirom na takvo pravno uređenje, postavlja se pitanje zakonitosti oružanih intervencija poduzetih na području druge suverene države s ciljem spašavanja vlastitih državljana koji se u njoj nađu u opasnosti. U radu se analizira mogu li se takve akcije podvesti pod samoobranu, kao jedinu Poveljom predviđenu iznimku od zabrane jednostrane upotrebe sile, te postoji li osnova za njihovo poduzimanje u običajnom međunarodnom pravu. Analizira se i može li stanje nužde, ne kao pravo, već kao okolnost koja isključuje protupravnost nekog čina, opravdati poduzimanje ovog tipa oružanih intervencija.Article 2 (4) of the United Nations Charter prohibits the use and threat of force which are directed against the territorial sovereignty and political independence of any state, or which are in any other way inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations. With respect to such legal regulation, the question of the legality of armed interventions undertaken on the territory of another sovereign state in order to rescue nationals who find themselves in danger arises. This paper analyzes whether such actions may be regarded as self-defence, as the only exception to the prohibition of the unilateral use of force provided by the Charter, as well as whether a basis for undertaking such actions exists in customary international law. Furthermore, the author examines whether the state of necessity, not as a right, but rather as a circumstance precluding wrongfulness of a certain act, may justify undertaking of such a type of armed interventions