While the whole fallujah thing is going on, France has quietly sent an armed force into Africa…ostensibly to rescude french nationals. However, I don’t see any UN approval given for this.
Should France be censured for this? Or is it only the USA that does things illegally? :smack:
As far as I know the frogs there with a UN mandate. Also they’ve got more than 15.000 frogs living there. Iraq and the Ivory Coast are not comparable.
You seem to be under the impression that the UN has censured the US. It hasn’t, if only because the US has a veto power on the Security Council.
It will never censure France, for the same reason.
And in any event, this wouldn’t be the occasion to do so. I can’t find a cite, but I’m pretty sure that French troops are there with the agreement of the Ivorian government and that they are co-operating with a UN peacekeeping force. The French don’t appear to be doing anything illegal. If anybody’s going to be censured, it’s the Ivorian government, whose stance is threatening a UN-brokered ceasefire.
Oh, and the US seems to be supportive of France. Another reason why the Security Council won’t be rushing to condemn France any time soon.
See what you can achieve when you take the trouble to make a plausible case and build a consensus for your actions? 
France is going to try and have the UN censor somebody because they had some troops killed.
Neither was Rwanda, Iraq or Sudan isn’t Iraq and for that matter Australia isn’t Chile.
Here’s the UN mandate
There’s plenty of background on the long standing French involvement here.
Nope. French troops have been there for a long time, since the civil war erupted in Ivory Coast. They do have an UN mandate (actually, besides french troops there are also UN peacekeepers), and even the agreement of the Ivorian governement, who asked for them at the first place, on the basis of a defence treaty.
Actually, the french forces aren’t part of the UNOCI.