Public Law Studies Quarterly

Transparency and Its Efficiencies’ Among Security Council’s Decisions

Document Type : Article

Authors

Ahmad Momenirad 1
Yoones Hajiazizi 2

1 Assistant Professor, Public Law Department, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

2 Ph.D. student in international law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22059/jplsq.2019.283173.2034
Abstract
Transparency is one of the legal principles which establish the basis of a good governess. Today the Security Council obtained the place of a universal governess, because almost all of the world’s States are members of the United Nations and the UN now operates the issues over of State’s relationship. The backgrounds of transparency are provided theoretically and therefore the Security Council is obliged to respect this notion in its actions. But because of the lack of a coherent supervisory mechanism for investigating Security Council activities, respecting legal obligations by Security Council in itself is a complicated issue and the SC doesn't transparent its activities voluntarily. So we should benefit other solutions to transparent the SC activities. These solutions are accessible somewhat which are investigated in this article.

Keywords

Decisions and Activities of SC
Transparency
Security Council
Legal Capacities of Transparency
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Public Law Studies Quarterly
Volume 51, Issue 4
Winter 2022
Winter 2022
Pages 1331-1349

  • Receive Date 09 June 2019
  • Revise Date 15 September 2019
  • Accept Date 28 September 2019

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