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            On April 1, 2001, a U.S. reconnaissance turboprop aircraft flying over the ocean at least 50 miles southeast of China's Hainan Island collided with a Chinese jet fighter that had been tracking its movements.  The U.S. aircraft made an emergency landing in China, while the Chinese jet crashed.  Apparently the pilot of the U.S. aircraft did not obtain verbal permission from China to land.  All crew members on board the U.S. aircraft survived the incident in good condition.  The Chinese pilot has not been found and is presumed dead at sea.

 

In a landmark decision which develops international humanitarian law pertaining to sexual violence and enslavement, Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court for Yugoslavia (ICTY) on February 22, 2001, sentenced three ethnic Serbs to prison for their abuse of women at a "rape camp" near Foca, a small Bosnian town southeast of Sarajevo.[1]  Dragoljub Kunarac was sentenced to 28 years, Radomir Kovac 20 years, and Zoran Vukovic 12 years.

 

Agriculture has traditionally been a primary source of economic tension between the United States and the European Union. The dispute over the EU's banana regime has been among the most contentious in recent years. It is also among the more legally and politically complex. 

 

 

Introduction

 

            The United Nations Security Council, in Resolution 1441 (November 8, 2002), unanimously deplored Iraq's lack of compliance with Resolution 687 (1991) on inspection, disarmament and renunciation of terrorism in Iraq, and went on to make several decisions under Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter. Resolution 687, like Resolution 1441, was adopted under Chapter VII.  Chapter VII gives the Council the authority to determine the existence of a threat to the peace, breach of the peace or act of aggression, and to take action accordingly.