<div class="xtend"><a id="pl.1.1"></a><var>1.1</var>A resolution<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.2"></a><var>1.2</var>memorializing the President concerning the implementation of the World Summit <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.3"></a><var>1.3</var>Outcome of the United Nations General Assembly.<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.4"></a><var>1.4</var>WHEREAS, in 2005, the World Summit Outcome of the United Nations General Assembly <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.5"></a><var>1.5</var>adopted the principle of the "responsibility to protect"; and  <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.6"></a><var>1.6</var>WHEREAS, this principle means that each state has the responsibility to protect its <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.7"></a><var>1.7</var>populations from atrocity crimes, such as genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crime against <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.8"></a><var>1.8</var>humanity and that the international community should encourage and help states to exercise this <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.9"></a><var>1.9</var>responsibility and support the United Nations in establishing an early warning capability; and <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.10"></a><var>1.10</var>WHEREAS, the United Nations, and all its member nations, agreed to take action through <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.11"></a><var>1.11</var>the Security Council if peaceful means are inadequate and national governments are unable to <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.12"></a><var>1.12</var>protect their populations from atrocity crimes; and <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.13"></a><var>1.13</var>WHEREAS, since 1945 efforts by the United Nations and individual nations to protect <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.14"></a><var>1.14</var>populations from atrocity crimes either have failed or have not been attempted, and millions <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.15"></a><var>1.15</var>upon millions of innocent civilians have lost their lives or been wounded and displaced, their <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.16"></a><var>1.16</var>property and livelihoods destroyed; and <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.17"></a><var>1.17</var>WHEREAS, the legislators of the State of Minnesota acknowledge the moral imperative of <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.18"></a><var>1.18</var>the right to protect all citizens from atrocity crimes; this reflects the highest values of freedom, <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.19"></a><var>1.19</var>care, and preservation of the lives of innocent civilians; and <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.20"></a><var>1.20</var>WHEREAS, the citizens of Minnesota elect members of Congress and, with other citizens, <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.21"></a><var>1.21</var>the President and Vice President of  the United States; and <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.1"></a><var>2.1</var>WHEREAS, we believe that these officials have a responsibility to use every legal means <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.2"></a><var>2.2</var>to protect people from atrocity crimes; NOW, THEREFORE, <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.3"></a><var>2.3</var>BE IT RESOLVED by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota  that it urges the President <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.4"></a><var>2.4</var>and the Congress  of the United States to commit to implementation and global leadership of the <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.5"></a><var>2.5</var>World Summit Outcome on the responsibility to protect innocent civilians through the strategies <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.6"></a><var>2.6</var>in the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document and the 2006 Security Council Resolution 167.<br />
         		<a id="pl.2.7"></a><var>2.7</var>BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that it urges the President to develop strategies to implement <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.8"></a><var>2.8</var>the responsibility to protect in coordination with the governments of the North Atlantic Treaty <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.9"></a><var>2.9</var>Organization, the European Union, the African Union, the Organization of American States, and <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.10"></a><var>2.10</var>the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.<br />
         		<a id="pl.2.11"></a><var>2.11</var>BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the President and Congress take every possible action <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.12"></a><var>2.12</var>to safeguard the security of innocent noncombatant men, women, and children in Darfur, Sudan, <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.13"></a><var>2.13</var>where the United States has declared a genocide to be occurring.<br />
         		<a id="pl.2.14"></a><var>2.14</var>BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of State of the  State of Minnesota <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.15"></a><var>2.15</var>is directed to prepare copies of this  memorial and transmit them to the President and Vice <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.16"></a><var>2.16</var>President of  the United States, the United States Secretary of State, the United States Secretary of <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.17"></a><var>2.17</var>Defense, the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations, the President and the <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.18"></a><var>2.18</var>Secretary of the United States Senate, the Speaker and the Clerk of the United States House of <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.19"></a><var>2.19</var>Representatives, and Minnesota's Senators and Representatives in Congress.<br />
         		
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