325 Beatriz Vázquez Rodríguez Spain and the Responsibility to Protect:... As highlighted by C. Gutiérrez Espada, the above-mentioned strategy contains in-teresting points on the possible scenarios for armed intervention for Spanish partici-pation in military operations in the case of the four crimes recognised by the responsi-bility to protect. The point made is that any action taken should respond to the need to protect own interests and shared values, and that it should be undertaken with the appropriate parliamentary supervision and in accordance with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, as stipulated in the Organic National Defence Act LO 5/200523. However, the 2013 strategy document, entitled «Spanish Security Strategy, A shared project» only refers to Spain’s capacity to take part in «crises or conflicts as a supportive partner of the international organisations to which it belongs, as well as in peacekee-ping, civilian protection or other operations that affect our shared values and stem from commitments to international organisations such as the UN» 24. The explicit re-ference to the commitment to the responsibility to protect disappears here, although a broad interpretation of this paragraph could lead to the conclusion that Spain conti-nues to uphold its commitment to the responsibility to protect as it is covered by one of the UN commitments. The Spanish government later decided to request a document from the Elcano Royal Institute (Real Instituto Elcano RIE) on the Spanish external action strategy in the face of the changing international situation. Thus, in February 2014, the RIE wro-te a report entitled «Towards a strategic renewal of Spain’s foreign policy»25, in which express mention was made of the responsibility to protect in the context of Spain’s ex-ternal action and, in particular, in relation to possible military interventions including those that do not have the authorisation of the Security Council: «(…) the possible participation in multilateral international military interventions or missions in cases of humanitarian crisis or conflicts (without national security necessarily being at stake) that haven’t been requested by the giaEspanolaSeguridad.pdf>, Consulted: 8 January 2016. For a general analysis of the Spanish Security Strategy as regards the responsibility to protect, see DE LUENGO ZARZOSO, M., «La responsab-ilidad de proteger como paradigma de la seguridad humana. Posición española y tipología militar», IEEE Research Document, nº 03, 2016, pp. 73-78. 23 GUTIÉRREZ ESPADA, C., CERVELL HORTAL, M. J., Nacimiento, Auge y Decadencia de la Responsabilidad de Proteger, Comares, Granada, 2014, pp. 159-160. 24 Spanish Security Strategy, A shared project, Government of Spain, Presidency of the Govern-ment, Madrid, 2013 p. 25 (Spanish version), <http://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/documents/seguridad_1406connavegacionfinalaccesiblebpdf.pdf>, Consulted: 8 January 2016. 25 «Hacia una renovación estratégica de la política exterior española. Elementos para conectar mejor el proyecto colectivo de país con el mundo globalizado», coord. MOLINA, I., Report 15, February 2014, <http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/wcm/connect/ec53e280430c03c1a760afc959dd21c2/InformeElcano15_ PolExtEspana.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CACHEID=ec53e280430c03c1a760afc959dd21c2>, Consulted: 8 January 2016. http://revista.ieee.es/index.php/ieee
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