Examples of using The concept of the responsibility to protect in English and their translations into Chinese
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Since the 2005 World Summit Outcome, the concept of the responsibility to protect has been widely embraced by scholars and academics, who have in recent years been laying foundations for the concept to move forward.
In 2011-2012, the organization worked with Brazil to delineate the concept of the responsibility to protect, which the Brazilian delegation brought to the floor of the General Assembly of the Untied Nations in early 2013.
More indepth discussions are needed with regard to the issue of establishing a Human Rights Council and the concept of the responsibility to protect, so as to ensure broad support for the measures to be implemented.
In this context, I stress the importance of the 2005 World Summit Outcome(resolution 60/1), which sets out the commitment of heads of State and Government to the concept of the responsibility to protect.
This supposed fact was never mentioned again once its intended result was achieved, but it must not be forgotten when we discuss the concept of the responsibility to protect.
It is also why the Prime Minister of Canada, Mr. Paul Martin, proposed here in the General Assembly last September, from this rostrum, the concept of the responsibility to protect.
This is the first time since the adoption of the 2005 World Summit Outcome(resolution 60/1) that we, the States Members of the United Nations, have debated the concept of the responsibility to protect.
As with the mandate of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, the focus of the institutional mechanisms that are being developed to implement the concept of the responsibility to protect will be limited to specific crimes.
Moreover, the concept of the responsibility to protect provides no explicit or airtight provisions to allay the fear that one country or group of countries or organizations might abuse this principle.
However, even if the concept of the responsibility to protect becomes an accepted instrument under international law, its effective use will not be immune to the political influence of some members of the Security Council.
The concept of the responsibility to protect is not new; it simply gives a name to what we have already done and what we continue to do or what we should be doing.
My delegation noted with satisfaction that the concept of the responsibility to protect has been included in the deliberations of the Council, as well as included in resolutions 1970(2011) and 1973(2011) in the case of Libya.
The concept of the Responsibility to Protect is characterized by three components: the responsibility to prevent conflict, to react to end it when it occurs, and to rebuild post-conflict countries.
First, it would be advisable to consider how the concept of the responsibility to protect could be applied to the occupied Palestinian territories; failure to use that procedure could only be explained by political pressures.
My delegation would have preferred the General Assembly to debate the concept of the responsibility to protect prior to the preparation of such a comprehensive report, as has been the norm in the United Nations.
Mr. Holovka(Serbia): Serbia welcomes the opening of the debate on the concept of the responsibility to protect, based on the comprehensive and astute report of the Secretary-General(A/63/677).
Five years later, the United Nations defined the concept of the responsibility to protect in paragraphs 138 to 140 of the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document(resolution 60/1).
From our perspective, the concepts of the responsibility to protect and humanitarian intervention are so dissimilar that they must not be confused.