General Comments by India on Consideration of the Resolution on the human rights implications of new and emerging technologies in the military domain at the 51st Session of the Human Rights Council, (12 September - 7 October 2022) delivered by Mr. Pawankumar Badhe, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of India [Geneva, 7th October 2022]. General Comments by India on Consideration of the Resolution on the human rights implications of new..
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General Comments by India on Consideration of the Resolution on the human rights implications of new and emerging technologies in the military domain at the 51st Session of the Human Rights Council, (12 September - 7 October 2022) delivered by Mr. Pawankumar Badhe, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of India [Geneva, 7th October 2022].

General Comments by India on Consideration of the Resolution on the human rights implications of new and emerging technologies in the military domain   at the 51st Session of the Human Rights Council, (12 September - 7 October 2022) delivered by Mr. Pawankumar Badhe, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of India
[Geneva,  7th October 2022]

Mr. President,

    We thank the core group, Panama and Austria, for their constructive approach. The draft resolution under consideration relates to the use of new and emerging technologies in military domain. At this stage, we feel that the scope of this resolution is too broad and many of the aspects, including human control, need to be appropriately deliberated on at the appropriate forum i.e. Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.

2. The subject of the resolution under consideration has been under discussion within the framework of CCW through a Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and is extraneous to the mandate of the Human Rights Council. The appropriate forum for discussion on application of International Humanitarian Law in the military domain is the CCW. The Council should not duplicate what is already being considered within the framework of the CCW.

3. The Resolution tasks the Council and the Advisory Committee to pursue further studies on this issue. We reiterate that the Human Rights Council is not the appropriate forum for discussing an issue like this.

I thank you