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ecognized human right to political freedom. … … Kin to such a right would be<br />

another: a right of the democratic members of the international community to<br />

aid, directly or indirectly, those fighting for their democratic entitlement. 103<br />

The United Nations, too, recognised that the paradigm restricting use of force to self-<br />

defence was overly constraining in the emerging post-Cold War world order. In 1991<br />

Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar said: ‘It is now increasingly felt that the<br />

principle of non-interference with the essential domestic jurisdiction of States cannot be<br />

regarded as a protective barrier behind which human rights can be massively or<br />

systematically violated with impunity.’ 104 It was on the logic of this that NATO’s<br />

attack on Serbia in 1999 was justified. During the intensive air operations that<br />

followed, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair made a seminal statement in a speech at the<br />

Chicago Economic Club:<br />

Twenty years ago we would not have been fighting in Kosovo. We would have<br />

turned our backs on it. The fact that we are engaged is the result of a wide range<br />

of changes - the end of the Cold War; changing technology; the spread of<br />

democracy. ……<br />

We live in a world where isolationism has ceased to have a reason to exist. By<br />

necessity we have to co-operate with each other across nations.<br />

Many of our domestic problems are caused on the other side of the world. … …<br />

Conflict in the Balkans causes more refugees in Germany and here in the US.<br />

These problems can only be addressed by international co-operation.<br />

We are all internationalists now, whether we like it or not. … …We cannot turn<br />

our backs on conflicts and the violation of human rights within other countries if<br />

we want still to be secure. 105<br />

If the UN remained ambivalent on the NATO action, neither authorising nor<br />

condemning it (and subsequently endorsing it), the ideological shift can be identified in<br />

the words of Secretary General Kofi Annan:<br />

State sovereignty… … is being redefined. … … States are now widely<br />

understood to be instruments at the service of their peoples, and not vice versa.<br />

At the same time individual sovereignty – by which I mean the fundamental<br />

freedom of each individual, enshrined in the Charter of the UN and subsequent<br />

international treaties – has been enhanced by a renewed and spreading<br />

consciousness of individual rights. When we read the Charter today, we are<br />

more than ever conscious that its aim is to protect individual human beings, not<br />

to protect those who abuse them. 106<br />

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