Debating the Responsibility to Protect

This video is a small sampling of comments from the 97th, 98th, 99th, 100th and 101st plenary meetings of the 63rd General Assembly. Up to 94 delegations spoke during the August 2009 debate, expressing a range of reactions to the multifaceted political philosophy described in the secretary-general's report on the responsibility to protect, known as R2P. Read more about the report at http://tinyurl.com/sgonr2p