3 Amendments of Enrique GUERRERO SALOM related to 2012/2143(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the development of the concept of ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P), which clarifies and strengthens the existing obligations of states to ensure the protection of civilians; stresses that this concept, born from the international community’s failures in Rwanda in 1994, is critical for the survival of the community of nations; calls for further development of the concept and asks the EU to work towards its universality, as an essential part of a collective security model based on multilateralism and the primacy of the United Nations;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls, however, that international humanitarian law (IHL) is the prime body of law in times of armed conflict and that its improved implementation should be the focus of the international community; emphasises that R2P is not a legal concept and is narrowly focused on the four crimes of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, whether in armed conflicts or in peacetime; calls on the EU to promote the R2P principle at the UN, together with the strengthening of the International Criminal Court.
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that R2P is primarily a preventive doctrine and that military intervention should be the last recourse in R2P situations; calls for R2P, whenever possible, to be carried out first and foremost through diplomatic and long-term developmental activities that focus on capacity-building in the fields of human rights, good governance, the rule of law, conflict prevention and the strengthening of early warning systems; furthermore, recalls that there are many non-military coercive alternatives, such as preventive diplomacy, sanctions, accountability mechanisms and mediation;