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    UN Security Council Sends an Observer Team to Syria

    by  • April 14, 2012 • Middle East, Responsibility to Protect, Security Council • 0 Comments

    Russian ambassador to the UN

    The Security Council passed a resolution on Saturday allowing a team of 30 unarmed military observers to enter Syria as soon as Sunday to monitor the cease-fire that has more or less been respected since Thursday. Up to 250 observers, drawn mostly from United Nations peacekeeping troops in the region, are to eventually make up [...]

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    The Responsibility to Protect Gets a Checkup

    by  • January 21, 2012 • Peace and Security, Responsibility to Protect, Security Council • 4 Comments

    Libyans celebrating in Msallata, marking the 93rd anniversary of the Republic of Tripolitania, formally under Italian rule. IASON FOOUNTEN

    When the carnage of the 1990s wound down, with more than a million people dead in massacres and brutal ethnic or political wars in and around Rwanda, the Balkans and elsewhere, nations that had failed to act to stop such tragedies began seeking ways to prevent future catastrophes. From this terrible decade, the long-postponed creation [...]

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