The UN Charter seeks to establish the The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as the supreme body for the regulation of international peace and security with what seems to appear as the sole right to authorize armed intervention. There are limitations on the right to sanction intervention. 'Domestic' matters are not subject to its jurisdiction. It only has power if there exists a 'threat to the peace, breach of the peace or act of aggression'. However, the ambiguities in the meaning of these terms have meant that, in practice, the Security Council has determined the extent of its power. Each time intervention was mandated, the UNSC resolution has recited an alleged threat to international peace -thereby asserting the existence of a fact which gives rise to its jurisdiction.