Such initiatives are surely a deserving recipient of more of the UK’s overseas aid than China, which reportedly received £51.7 million last year.
We have a legal duty to intervene if chemical weapons are used, and that is a duty we must not fail.
Ministers should do nothing to make a coup less likely as the country’s elites come to terms with the consequences of war.
So the only question that remains, given this new compromise plan, is: what’s the Government’s objection now?
Defensive actions taken by the IDF have resulted in fatalities. Only when absolutely necessary and legally permitted, has force been used.
Proposals that define Convention rights in ways other than the Court determines send the wrong message.