An idealistic effort to establish a new humanitarian principle is coming under attack at the United Nations
“Assurances have failed to convince critics of the responsibility to protect, who are adamant that the whole idea is just a cover to legitimise armed interference by rich Western powers in the affairs of poor countries. One person who takes that view is Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, a Nicaraguan diplomat (and Sandinista priest-politician), who is now president of the General Assembly…”
