The UNSC Committee was one of the five committees organised in the International Relations Model United Nations 2020 held on 10 February and 11 February, 2020. Being one of the primary organs of the United Nations, UNSC is shouldered with the important responsibility of maintaining international peace. The committee consists of 15 member-states- 5 permanent countries and 10 non-permanent countries. The agenda for the committee was “The Use of Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWs) in the Middle East”. Besides the P5 members, the non-permanent countries of the committee included Germany, Sudan, Egypt, Mexico, Turkey, India, Venezuela, Italy, Kuwait and Iran. However, the delegate of Turkey could not make it for the session on both the days.

The first day of the UNSC was focused primarily on discussing various aspects of the agenda. All the member-states actively took part in the discussions. The committee began at 11 am with a roll-call and then proceeded into a formal session where the delegates gave their opening speeches as per the General Speaker’s List. Then the committee transitioned into a moderated caucus which was the dominant session for the day. The committee witnessed nine moderated caucuses on the first day with topics for discussion as follows: Definition of LAWs, Relation between LAWs and Civilian Deaths, Role of States in LAWs, Dual Usage of Artificial Intelligence for military and technological purposes, Consequences of LAWs in the Middle East, Trade of Technology related to LAWs, possible Review Mechanisms of LAWs, discussion of the previous unmoderated caucus, and the Mechanisms to regulate LAWs.

The second day of the UNSC was focused on drafting a resolution and voting on it. The session witnessed four moderated caucuses with formal sessions and unmoderated caucuses in between each. The topics of the moderated caucuses were as follows: Use of LAWs and the Future of Warfare, incorporation of Human Control in LAWs, possibility of Trade and Use of Artificial Intelligence and discussion on the Draft Treaty. A draft resolution sponsored by the People’s Republic of China and the French Republic was tabled. The resolution was widely supported by the member-states of the committee and was agreed upon smoothly. The resolution was voted upon at the end of the session and was passed with 10 ‘Yes’ votes, 4 ‘No’ votes and 1 absentia. This brought a fruitful end to the UNSC session proceedings of the International Relations Model United Nations 2020.