A/HRC/25/59 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. 20

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