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Speeches and Press Releases

Speeches

2005

Address by Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs to the 61st Session of the Commission on Human Rights
March 14, 2005, Geneva, Switzerland

Address by the Minister of National Defence at the Annual Conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
February 18, 2005, Montreal, Quebec

2004

Address by Prime Minister Paul Martin at the United Nations
September 22, 2004, New York, New York

Secretary-General Kofi Annan's address to the UN General Assembly (PDF file)
21 September 2004, New York, NY

Address by Prime Minister Paul Martin on the occasion of his visit to Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., April 29, 2004

Uneasy Bedfellows: 'The Responsibility to Protect' and Feinstein-Slaughter's 'Duty to Prevent
Commentary by Gareth Evans, Co-Chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, on Lee Feinsten and Anne-Marie Slaughter, "The Duty to Prevent" (Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb 2004), 1 April 2004

The Responsibility to Protect: Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention
Gareth Evans, President of the International Crisis Group and Co-Chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, Washington DC, 1 April 2004

Secretary-General Kofi Annan's remarks at the Memorial Conference on the Rwanda Genocide
New York, 26 March 2004

Address at the joint Canada-Rwanda Memorial Conference on the Rwandan Genocide
Bill Graham, Foreign Affairs Minister of Canada, New York, NY, March 26, 2004

Address by the Prime Minister of Canada in reply to the Speech from the Throne
(In which the Prime Minister makes reference to "The Responsibility to Protect") Prime Minister Paul Martin, Ottawa, February 3, 2004

Prime Minister Paul Martin speaks at the World Economic Forum on "The Future of Global Interdependence"
Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2004

2002

The Responsibility to Protect and September 11
Address by Gareth Evans to UNU/Canadian Government Seminar on The Responsibility to Protect, 16 December 2002

The Responsibility to Protect: Humanitarian Intervention in the 21st Century
Gareth Evans, Co-Chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty and President of the International Crisis Group, Stanford University, 27 February 2002

Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations Addresses International Peace Academy Seminar on 'The Responsibility to Protect'
February 15, 2002

2000

Address to the Plenary Session of the Millennium Summit of the United Nations
(Announcing the establishment of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty) Prime Minister of Canada, New York, September 7, 2000

Address on Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention
Lloyd Axworthy, Foreign Affairs Minister of Canada, Washington, D.C., June 16, 2000

Hauser Lecture on International Humanitarian Law
Lloyd Axworthy, Foreign Affairs Minister of Canada, New York, February 10, 2000

Press Releases

December 18, 2002 - Canada Launches Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty

September 14, 2000 - Axworthy launches International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty