LEGALITY OF IRAQ WAR QUESTIONABLE

Britain’s former ambassador to the UN, who was at the centre of failed attempts to obtain a Security Council mandate for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, admitted that the legitimacy of the war was “questionable.” Speaking on the fourth day of the Iraq inquiry, Greenstock said that he believed the US and UK had “established” legality for the war in that it had never been challenged at the UN or the International Court of Justice. “I regarded our participation in the military action against Iraq in March 2003 as legal but of questionable legitimacy,” said the ambassador, who later became Prime Minister Tony Blair’s special envoy to Iraq before retiring.