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The United States has ratified the ICCPR. The question is whether it is bound by that treaty also in occupied territories - the answer will be affirmative - and whether it is a valid defense against the reproach of having committed a human rights violation in occupied territory for it to claim that this violation was authorized by a Security Council resolution. On the basis of the international law principles forbidding a State to frustrate the objects of a treaty to which it is a party, and preventing a State from benefitting from its own wrongdoing, the latter question will be answered in the negative.
