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The Legal Significance of the Declarations of the General Assembly of the United Nations pp 121–125Cite as

The Resolution Affirming Principles of International Law Embodied in the Charter of the Nurnberg Tribunal

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Although, for centuries, the concepts of just and unjust wars continually crept into legal thinking, war was not illegal. The first step towards making war illegal was the League of Nations Covenant. It prohibited resort to war in certain circumstances, e.g., against a party to a dispute which has complied with a unanimous decision of the Council. It was left to the Treaty for the Renunciation of War (the Briand-Kellogg Pact) of 1928 to close the gaps. By this treaty, the contracting parties renounced war as an instrument of national policy in the settlement of international disputes.

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  1. Obed Y. Asamoah LL.B.Hons. (Lond.), LL.M. (Columbia)
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© 1966 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands

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Asamoah, O.Y. (1966). The Resolution Affirming Principles of International Law Embodied in the Charter of the Nurnberg Tribunal. In: The Legal Significance of the Declarations of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9495-2_11

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