On the morning of February 27, the majority (534 to 49) of the members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voted in favour of passing a resolution that demanded European Union Member States not to “perpetrate unlawful targeted killings or facilitate such killings by other states” and called on them to “oppose and ban practices of extra judicial targeted killings.
The resolution also stated that the ”drone strikes by a State on the territory of another State without the consent of the latter constitute a violation of international law and of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of that country.”
It further said that “thousands of civilians have reportedly been killed or seriously injured by drone strikes however these figures are difficult to estimate, due to lack of transparency and obstacles to investigation.”
