21 April 2004 :

In response to the adoption of a resolution for a moratorium on executions by the UN Commission on Human Rights, Debabrata Saha, a representative of India, said the international community had not yet reached consensus on the issue of capital punishment, and that promoting the abolition of this matter as a human rights issue could only be done progressively. Saha also noted that the draft resolution asked states to stop executions so long as any related legal procedure was pending internationally, and that according to him this was unacceptable since the only legal procedures that were relevant were the national ones.