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The Responsibility to Protect was unanimously adopted by world leaders at the 2005 World Summit. Governments recognized their primary responsibility to protect their own populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity and promised to assist each other to fulfill this responsibility and to protect populations when governments manifestly failed to do so. This report sets out practical ways in which regional arrangements in the Asia Pacific and the United Nations can work together to translate this shared commitment to protect populations from acts of inhumanity into practice, in a manner consistent with the priorities, values and principles of the governments and peoples of the Asia Pacific region.