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4 October 2012 the Responsibility to Protect and the 67Th Opening of The 4 October 2012 The Responsibility to Protect and the 67th Opening of the UN General Assembly Table of Contents Summary ................................................................................................................................................................................. 2 Direct Reference to R2P ......................................................................................................................................................... 3 Indirect Reference to R2P ....................................................................................................................................................... 8 Syria......................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 The International Response to the Crisis in Libya & Resolution 1973 ................................................................................. 33 Democratic Republic of the Congo ....................................................................................................................................... 36 Sudan .................................................................................................................................................................................... 37 Yemen ................................................................................................................................................................................... 42 Mali ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 43 Côte d’Ivoire.......................................................................................................................................................................... 47 Myanmar ............................................................................................................................................................................... 48 Concerns over the Use of Force ........................................................................................................................................... 50 National Focal Points ............................................................................................................................................................ 52 Responsibility While Protecting ........................................................................................................................................... 52 UN Impartiality ..................................................................................................................................................................... 53 Selective Application ............................................................................................................................................................ 53 Accountability and Mass Atrocities ...................................................................................................................................... 54 UN Security Council Veto ...................................................................................................................................................... 56 Regime Change ..................................................................................................................................................................... 58 UN Security Council Reform ................................................................................................................................................. 58 Summary The below quotes made by government heads of state are from the opening of the general assembly and are relevant to the responsibility to protect (R2P) Themes Speakers Total Direct Bahrain; Belarus; Belgium; Botswana; Brazil; Costa Rica; Côte d’Ivoire; Croatia; Denmark; Estonia; Libya; Liechtenstein; Montenegro; Poland; Romania; Russia; Slovenia; South Africa; Sudan; Syria; the Netherlands; 25 Reference to R2P Turkey; UN Secretary-General; Uruguay; Zimbabwe. Indirect France; Slovakia. 2 Reference to R2P Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Andorra; Angola; Antigua & Barbuda; Armenia; Australia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Bahrain; Belgium; Bosnia & Herzegovina; Botswana; Brazil; Bulgaria; Burundi; China; Colombia; Costa Rica; Croatia; Cuba; Cyprus; Czech Republic; D.R. Congo; Denmark; DPR Korea; Egypt; Estonia; European Union; Finland; France; Gabon; Gambia; Germany; Greece; Grenada; Guinea; Guyana; Holy See; Iceland; India; Indonesia; Iraq; Ireland; Italy; Jamaica; Japan; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Kuwait; Kyrgyzstan; Latvia; Lebanon; Lesotho; Libya; Liechtenstein; Luxembourg; Madagascar; Malaysia; Maldives; Malta; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mexico; Syria Micronesia; Monaco; Mongolia; Montenegro; Morocco; Nepal; New Zealand; Nicaragua; Nigeria; Norway; Oman; 118 Panama; Paraguay; Peru; Poland; Portugal; Qatar; R. Korea; R. Congo; Romania; Russia; San Marino; Sao Tome and Principe; Saudi Arabia; Singapore; Slovakia; Slovenia; Spain; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; Sudan; Swaziland; Sweden; Switzerland; Syria; Tanzania; Thailand; The Comoros Islands; The Netherlands; The Solomon Islands; Timor Leste; Togo; Trinidad & Tobago; Tunisia; Turkey; Ukraine; U.A.E ; United Kingdom; United States; Uruguay; Venezuela; Yemen; Zambia. International Andorra; Austria; Botswana; Chad; Colombia; Czech Republic; Finland; France; Gabon; Libya; St. Kitts and Nevis; Response to the Togo; Ukraine; United States; Venezuela; Zimbabwe. 16 Crisis in Libya Democratic Angola; Belgium; Benin; Burundi; DRC; France; Gabon; Morocco; Namibia; Republic of the Congo; Sao Tome Republic of the and Principe; Tanzania; Uganda. 13 Congo (DRC) Angola; Benin; Botswana; Chad; Egypt; Ethiopia; Gambia; Guinea; Guyana; India; Kenya; Mauritania; Namibia; Sudan Norway; Republic of the Congo; Sao Tome and Principe; South Africa; South Sudan; St. Lucia; Sudan; Swaziland; 22 Zambia Yemen Germany; Kuwait; Saudi Arabia; United States; Yemen. 5 Angola; Austria; Botswana; Burundi; Chad; Côte d’Ivoire; DRC; France; Gabon; Guinea; Guyana; Liberia; Mali Mauritania; Monaco; Morocco; Namibia; Nigeria; Portugal; R. Congo; Sao Tome and Principe; Senegal; Spain; St. 27 Lucia; The Comoros; Gambia; Togo; Zambia. Côte d’Ivoire Côte d’Ivoire; Ghana; Liberia; Morocco; Togo. 5 Austria; Bahrain; European Union; Germany; Iraq; Japan; Kuwait; Libya; Myanmar; Norway; R. Korea; Thailand; Myanmar Timor Leste; Turkey; United Arab Emirates; United States; Yemen. 17 Concerns over China; Cuba; DPR Korea; Lesotho; Liechtenstein; Russia; Somalia; St. Vincent & the Grenadines; Trinidad & 11 Use of Force Tobago; Tuvalu; Venezuela. Focal Points Costa Rica; Denmark. 2 RWP Brazil; Russia. 2 UN Impartiality Egypt; Eritrea; Russia; Sri Lanka; St. Kitts & Nevis; Syria. 6 Accountability & Armenia; Austria; Belgium; Botswana; Costa Rica; Croatia; Denmark; Estonia; Iceland; Ireland; Libya; 18 Mass Atrocities Liechtenstein; Montenegro; Peru; R. Korea; Sierra Leone; Slovakia; the Netherlands. UNSC Veto Ecuador; Iran; Liechtenstein; Malaysia; New Zealand; Norway; Singapore; Switzerland; Uruguay. 9 Regime Change Cuba; South Africa; Venezuela. 3 Afghanistan; Angola; Antigua & Barbuda; Brazil; Cape Verde; Costa Rica; Côte d’Ivoire; Croatia; Cuba; Czech Republic; DPR Korea; Egypt; Eritrea ; France; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Grenada; Guyana; India; Italy; Jamaica; Japan; Kuwait; Kyrgyzstan; Latvia; Lebanon; Lesotho; Liberia; Luxembourg; Macedonia; Malawi; Mexico; UNSC Reform Moldova; Namibia; Nigeria; Paraguay; R. Congo; Russia; Samoa; San Marino; Sao Tome & Principe; Saudi Arabia; 58 Senegal; Sierra Leone; Solomon Islands; South Africa; St. Lucia; Sudan; Swaziland; Switzerland; Tanzania; The Comoros; Timor Leste; Trinidad2 & Tobago; Ukraine; Venezuela; Zambia; Zimbabwe. Direct Reference to R2P UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon “It is our duty to give tangible meaning to the responsibility to protect.” Bahrain “Our organization must therefore shoulder its responsibilities for the protection of unarmed civilians and must not allow the procedures of the United Nations to impede its ability to prevent crimes against humanity. It must put aside the narrow geopolitical interests and proceed to the attainment of the supreme goal which is the responsibility to protect civilians in armed conflicts.” Belarus “First, to ensure the rule of law on the global scale, the system of international law needs to become fully functional. Forged through the centuries of suffering, this is the foundation without which all other elements of the modern civilization cannot operate. Having signed the UN Charter, the world’s countries committed themselves to abide by the principles of international law. In other words, they refused to live any longer in the conditions of destructive anarchy and lawlessness. International law has been shaped as a historic compromise between the interests of all states. Thus, it could be supplemented and revised only if all of them agree to do so. There should be no place to arbitrary interpretations that seek to subordinate international law to someone’s private interests. Let us bear in mind that this behavior leads to infringement of interests of other international actors. This is why no trendy concepts – like ‘humanitarian intervention’ or ‘responsibility to protect’ – can justify interference in internal affairs of sovereign states.” Belgium “…based on the approach
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