Tarja Cronberg (Verts/ALE). - Mr President, in Syria the internationally-approved principle of responsibility to protect is a joke. The war goes on, aid access is not available and people die. Implementation of the responsibility to protect in Syria cannot depend on its leader taking the lead, and we must strongly challenge that state’s ‘right’ to kill its people. There is a need for a new mandate in the United Nations to actually implement this principle.