Thursday, November 20, 2008

HCFA: Renewing the United Nations Mandate for Iraq: Plans and Prospects

Yesterday, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight held a hearing on Renewing the United Nations Mandate for Iraq: Plans and Prospects. Witnesses included: Thomas Donnelly (American Enterprise Institute); Oona A. Hathaway (Univ. of California, Berkeley - Law); Raed Jarrar (American Friends Service Committee); Michael J. Matheson (George Washington Univ. - Law); and Issam Michael Saliba (Law Library of Congress). (Links are to the witnesses' written statements.) Subcommittee Chair Bill Delahunt's opening statement is here; the hearing background memo is here; video is here.