NEW DELHI: India has called for terrorist acts that meet the requisite threshold to be recognised within the framework of crimes against humanity at the United Nations.It also stressed that states must take the lead in preventing, investigating and prosecuting such crimes through their national legal and judicial systems.R Mythili, counsellor (legal adviser) at India’s Permanent Mission to the UN, made the statement at the 81st session of the UN General Assembly’s sixth committee during discussions on a proposed convention on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity.
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India called for the primacy of national and territorial jurisdictions, with due respect for “State sovereignty and the principle of non-interference in internal affairs”.It also said a new convention must “complement, not duplicate, existing international legal mechanisms”, cautioning against simply transferring existing international legal regimes into the proposed framework.India further called for “broadly accepted principles of international law, stronger national capacities, and transparent and inclusive negotiations” to strengthen the international framework for preventing and punishing crimes against humanity.