249In this context it is to be borne in mind, first, that in accordance with Article 48(2) of the Charter of the United Nations, the decisions of the Security Council ‘shall be carried out by the Members of the United Nations directly and through their action in the appropriate international agencies of which they are members’ and, second, that according to the case-law (Poulsen and Diva Navigation, paragraph 210 above, paragraph 9, and Racke, paragraph 210 above, paragraph 45, and Case 41/74 Van Duyn [1974] ECR 1337, paragraph 22), the Community must respect international law in the exercise of its powers and, consequently, Community law must be interpreted, and its scope limited, in the light of the relevant rules of international law.
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