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      "summary": "On September 12, 2002, President Bush in his address to the U.N. General Assembly, focused\non\nIraq and its failure to comply with various resolutions adopted by the U.N. Security Council. He\nurged the Council to act in the face of such repeated violations. On November 8, 2002, the Council\nresponded, adopting Resolution 1441 (2002) unanimously. This short report provides background\ninformation on what the U.N. Security Council is and what it does, including the occasions when\nit has authorized the use of force or its equivalent. As the U.N. organ having primary responsibility\nfor the maintenance of peace and security, the 15-member Security Council set the major\ninternational response to the August 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, authorizing the use of \"force\"\nto gain Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait in compliance with the 11 resolutions previously passed in\n1990. In 1991, after the war, the Council adopted a series of 12 resolutions that assigned an\nextensive set of tasks to the United Nations and imposed on Iraq an equally extensive series of\nobligations. As hostilities became imminent, U.N. activities inside Iraq were suspended. After\nMarch 19, 2003, the Council met in late March to air U.N. member concerns over the hostilities. \nThis report ends with the start of hostilities and will not be updated.",
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