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To: GST who wrote (141466)	7/26/2004 1:22:16 AM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Here is something that happens when you get too many lawyers together in one room( too many can be as little as two) It is not clarification, it is obfuscation. And money for lawyers. icj-cij.org <<<At the hearings, which opened on 19 April 2004, the delegation of Serbia and Montenegro was led by Mr. Tibor Varady, Chief Legal Adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro, as Agent. The delegations of Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom were led, respectively, by Mr. Jan Devadder, Director‑General, Legal Matters, Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ms Colleen Swords, Legal Adviser to the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs; Mr. Ronny Abraham, Director of Legal Affairs, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Mr. Thomas Läufer, Director General for Legal Affairs and Legal Adviser, German Federal Foreign Office, and H.E. Mr. Edmund Duckwitz, Ambassador of Germany to the Netherlands; Mr. Ivo Braguglia, Head of the Diplomatic Legal and Treaties Department, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Mr. J. G. Lammers, Legal Adviser of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Mr. Luís Serradas Tavares, Director of the Department of Legal Affairs, Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and Sir Michael Wood, K.C.M.G., Legal Adviser, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as Agents.>>> <<<"Lots of people have concerns about the legitimacy of the war and it seems we do need to have clarification on this," said Alan Simpson, an MP from Blair's own ruling Labour party, who is leading the group.>>> The UN is the closest thing to a universal assembly of Nations representatives as can be found. They voted 15 to 0 to subject Saddam to serious consequences. In pure legal sense, The first Gulf war never ended. If the Gulf war had ended, why are we not being sued for the destruction caused by all our no-fly missions? Sig