Moreover, it is often unclear whether they are operating with the consent of all the parties to a conflict.

"We have to have the strategic consent of all the parties," General Clark said.

Most are irrevocable which means the issuing bank is unable to amend or cancel its terms without the consent of all the parties, including the exporter.

But he insisted that such peace negotiations must enjoy the consent of all the parties concerned and cannot be imposed on them "as this resolution attempts to do."

Russian officials have said it would be difficult for them to agree to a Security Council resolution that allows for the approval of a military action without the consent of all the parties.

While complex missions in Cambodia and Mozambique were ongoing, the Security Council dispatched peacekeepers to conflict zones like Somalia, where neither ceasefires nor the consent of all the parties in conflict had been secured.

Urges Shift From Policy The plan underscores the risk in the Yugoslav operation, saying that the Security Council should abandon its normal practice of deploying peacekeeping forces only with the consent of all the parties to a dispute.

A liability may be transferred with the consent of all the parties involved; but this is in effect the rescission of one contract and the substitution of a new one in which the same acts are to be performed by different parties.

As part of a three-judge panel on the 7th Circuit in Chicago, weighing a challenge to the Illinois Eavesdropping Act, which bars the secret recording of conversations without the consent of all the parties to the conversation, Posner was to deliver another memorable quote.