The Holy See has now published the entire speech the Pope held before the UN General Assembly in mid-April (we reported earlier). As has been noted by several international law interested people, inter alia on other blogs such as Opinio Juris and IntLawGrrls, some of the remarks could be interpreted as a strong support of what has been called the principle of the “responsibility to protect”. Now, I would probably not go as far as to say that the Pope actually endorses that principle in its original form. After all, the R2P (as it is sometimes called) is merely a theoretical…