(MENAFN- QNA) Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Saturday the appointment of HE Ambassador Dr. Mutlaq bin Majed Al Qahtani, the Director of International Organizations and Conferences Department at the Foreign Minister, as a National Focal Point for the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), becoming the 44th state globally and the first state in the Middle East to appoint a National R2P Focal Point.
The National Focal Points aim to facilitate the national mechanisms for the protection of civilians and to strengthen international cooperation by participating in a global R2P network, and to educate and disseminate the principle of the responsibility to protect.
The Responsibility to Protect - known as R2P - was launched at the 2005 World Summit, where the largest number of heads of state and government in the history of the UN convened. The R2P was unanimously adopted.
The R2P stipulates three pillars of responsibility: Every state has the Responsibility to Protect its populations from four mass atrocity crimes: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing, The wider international community has the responsibility to encourage and assist individual states in meeting that responsibility, If a state is manifestly failing to protect its populations, the international community must be prepared to take appropriate collective action, in a timely and decisive manner and in accordance with the UN Charter.
The R2P Focal Points initiative was launched in September 2010 by the governments of Denmark and Ghana in collaboration with the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect at the annual Ministerial Meeting on the Responsibility to Protect held during the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. Since then the governments of Australia and Costa Rica have also joined the facilitating group.
Since September 2010, 44 countries, representing every region of world, have appointed a national R2P Focal Point. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is an urgent necessity in the Middle East, especially in Syria, where statistics indicate the deaths of at least 200 thousand Syrian citizen since the outbreak of the revolution in 2011.
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