But the emerging powers soon came to believe that the West had used the protection of Libya’s civilian population as a pretext for regime change (though, realistically, it would have been impossible to protect the population without toppling Muammar el-Qaddafi’s government). Now, these countries are largely rejecting R2P, viewing it as a device employed by Western governments to legitimize their attempts to infringe upon national sovereignty.
不过新兴大国很快认定西方将保护利比亚平民作为政权更迭的借口（尽管从现实角度讲，不可能在不推翻卡扎菲政府的情况下保护利比亚平民）。现在，这些国家大都拒绝接受保护责任，将其视为西方政府企图令侵犯国家主权行为合法化的一种工具。