General Assembly Meets on Responsibility to Protect - Twenty Years of Commitment

Philemon Yang (centre), President of the seventy-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly, chairs the 80th plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the theme responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. At left is Secretary-General António Guterres who delivered a report on "Responsibility to protect: 20 years of commitment to principled and collective action" to the Assembly.