UN General Assembly
2006

National borders are no longer an excuse for the international community to turn a blind eye to genocide, crimes against humanity and other gross human rights violations. Last year, for the first time world leaders formally and universally affirmed the concept of the responsibility to protect. The 2005 World Summit Outcome (resolution 60/1) provides a detailed framework for individual and collective responsibility, in areas ranging from prevention and protection to rebuilding. We regard the framework as a conceptual breakthrough and wish to stress the need for all members of the international community, and the Security Council in particular, to deliver on the implementation of that responsibility in practice. Many crises are evolving as we speak, some of which the international community will try to resolve, while giving less attention to others. The suffering of the civilian population in Darfur calls for our immediate efforts. We should not allow the tragedy that occurred in Rwanda or Bosnia and Herzegovina to be repeated in Darfur or anywhere else. Attention to the Western Balkans must not