Responsibility to protect

We must advance the responsibility to protect.

In this respect, we embrace the concept of responsibility to protect .

The responsibility to protect is, of course, a reflection of our common morality.

Some governments are also worried that R2P could be turned on them.

In our view, the concept of responsibility to protect should receive serious consideration on our part.

The idea was that R2P should be enriched by the acceptance of a complementary principle, called Responsible Protection.

This Responsibility to Protect, or R2P, was enshrined by the UN in 2005.

Canada's support for the principle of the responsibility to protect is well known.

We believe it is the primary and primordial responsibility of each State to protect its population and for that reason we fully support the concept of the responsibility to protect.

We consider the recognition of the responsibility to protect as one of the most positive elements in the outcome document.

There are other reasons why R2P has not been a success in the Syrian case.

Not even the most passionate advocate of the responsibility to protect can pretend otherwise.

I believe that we must embrace the responsibility to protect, and, when necessary, we must act on it.

In addition, under enormous pressure, concepts such as the responsibility to protect and human security have been included.

The Secretary General and the High level Panel define the concept of responsibility to protect as an emerging norm .

Slovenia considers the responsibility to protect to be an integral part of national responsibility to protect a country's people against atrocities.

Concepts such as humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect need careful scrutiny in order to test the motives of their proponents.

Not only is the credibility of the responsibility to protect principle at stake, but also its own.

On human rights and the rule of law, endorsement by leaders of the concept of a responsibility to protect is a significant step forward.

We were also pleased to note that, for the first time, the outcome document contains a broader definition of the principle of the responsibility to protect.

Further development and enactment of the principle of the responsibility to protect should also be continued through a new Security Council resolution on the protection of civilians.

The concept of the responsibility to protect was adopted unanimously by the UN World Summit in 2005.

We stress the need to continue at the sixtieth session of the General Assembly consideration of the concept of the responsibility to protect.

The promotion of development, as well as the concepts of the responsibility to protect and human security, are also key elements for my country.

The responsibility to protect is a distinct concept, carefully set out in the World Summit Outcome.

We stress the need to continue consideration within the General Assembly of the concept of the responsibility to protect.

Currently, the Bureauxs and the Departmentivision of International Protection share the responsibility of analyszing and providing comment to the Ffield on APRs.

In fact, R2P is more about struggles over political legitimacy and soft power than it is about hard international law.

The Security Council must be ready to take responsibility if and when a State cannot give its citizens the necessary protection.

And the primary emphasis of the entire R2P enterprise should continue to be prevention of mass atrocity crimes both their occurrence and their recurrence.

We fully support the Secretary General's strong endorsement of the responsibility to protect, and we hope that leaders will do the same in September.

It is our understanding that the Security Council shares the responsibility to protect and that the use of the veto in the Council is fundamentally incompatible with that responsibility.

Let me also recall that in recent years the Organization has been considering a proposal to assume the so called collective responsibility to protect .

Once the conflict had broken out, a number of defenders of the concept of the responsibility to protect hindered consideration of the humanitarian situation in Iraq in the Commission on Human Rights.

In an age of cyber warfare and drones, the end of R2P or humanitarian intervention is hardly foretold.

Expansion of the scope of protection to men and children and amendments to expand the criminal liability to persons who also act as intermediaries in the commission of the offence.

It is our firm belief that the resolution must include a clear and unambiguous reference to the responsibility to protect.

That would not only reassure those who remain anxious about the scope of the responsibility to protect, but would also serve to strengthen the Council's legitimacy, effectiveness and transparency.

Of all that was agreed at the summit, I believe it will be the agreement on our responsibility to protect that will be seen in the future as having the greatest significance of all.

We endorse the Secretary General's appeal to embrace the principle of the responsibility to protect as a norm for our collective action in cases of genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

If not addressed, they will make Security Council resolutions in support of military action in R2P cases almost impossible to obtain in the future.

In the Scandinavian countries, as opposed to, say, Germany and the US, the government, not individual companies, are responsible for most social benefits.

It is important to keep in perspective what the responsibility to protect is about, and what the principle was designed to achieve.

The emerging security concept of the responsibility to protect , coupled with humanitarian intervention, remains grounded in military action and has been used in the past to justify violent military intervention.