"Pre-emption, Russian style. (Insider Report).Invoking the same doctrine of "pre-emption PRE-EMPTION, intern. law. The right of preemption is the right of a nation to detain the merchandise of strangers passing through her territories or seas, in order to afford to her subjects the preference of purchase. 1 Chit. Com. Law, 103; 1 Bl. Com. 287. 2. " articulated by George W. Bush, Russian President and KGB KGB: see secret police. KGB Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (“Committee for State Security”) Soviet agency responsible for intelligence, counterintelligence, and internal security. veteran Vladimir Putin informed the UN on September 12th that Russia reserved the right to attack Georgia as part of the "war on terrorism Terrorist acts and the threat of Terrorism have occupied the various law enforcement agencies in the U.S. government for many years. The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, as amended by the usa patriot act ." "Mr. Putin said bluntly that Georgia's harboring of Chechen fighters gave Russia the right to act in self-defense under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter and the antiterrorism an·ti·ter·ror·ist adj. Intended to prevent or counteract terrorism; counterterror: antiterrorist measures. an resolution passed last year," reported the September 13th New York Times. According to Putin, if Georgian authorities do not root out Chechen "bandits" from its territory, "Russia, acting strictly under international law, will take adequate measures to oppose the terrorist threat." |
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