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any requests for confidentiality) will publish the responses as they are received on the
official web page of the mandate.
73.
The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Council take effective steps, by means
of an appropriate resolution aimed at:
• Urging all States to ensure that any measures taken to counter terrorism, including
the use of remotely piloted aircraft, comply with their obligations under international
law, including international humanitarian law and international human rights law, in
particular the principles of precaution, distinction and proportionality;
• Urging all States to ensure that, in any case in which there is a plausible indication
from any apparently reliable source that civilians have been killed or injured in a
counter-terrorism operation, including through the use of remotely piloted aircraft,
the relevant authorities conduct a prompt, independent and impartial fact-finding
inquiry, and provide a detailed public explanation;
• Urging all States that use remotely piloted aircraft for lethal counter-terrorism
operations, and all States on whose territory such operations occur, to clarify their
position on the legal and factual issues raised in the present report and the Special
Rapporteur’s interim report to the General Assembly (A/68/389); to declassify, to
the maximum extent possible, information relevant to lethal extraterritorial counterterrorism operations; to make public the results of all fact-finding investigations into
alleged civilian casualties resulting from such operations; and to release their own
data on the level of civilian casualties inflicted through the use of remotely piloted
aircraft, together with information on the evaluation methodology used.
74.
Further, the Special Rapporteur recommends that the Council convene an interactive
panel discussion of experts at its twenty-seventh session to further deliberate on the issues
raised in the present report; and mandate the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights to submit a summary of the deliberations of the panel
discussion to the Council at its twenty-eighth session.
IV. Conclusions and recommendations
75.
The Special Rapporteur:
(a)
Calls upon the States identified in chapter III, section C, of the present
report to disclose the results of any fact-finding inquiries into the alleged incidents
listed therein, or to explain why no such inquiries have been made;
(b)
Calls upon the States on whose territory those strikes reportedly took
place to provide as much information as possible in connection with those strikes;
(c)
Encourages all States to respond to his requests for clarification of their
position in relation to the questions raised in paragraph 71 of the present report.
(d)
Recommends that the Council adopt a resolution phrased in the terms
outlined in paragraphs 73 and 74 of the present report.
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