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India hit out China, Pakistan at the United Nations Security Council meet on terrorism, calling out both on several counts from “double standards” to “hypocrisy” over the issue. Pointing out to the “practice of placing holds and blocks on listing requests without giving any justification”, India’s Ambassador to UN, Ruchira Kamboj, said, “It is most regrettable that genuine and evidence-based listing proposals pertaining to some of the most notorious terrorists in the world are being placed on hold.”
Earlier this year, China had put a hold on the UN listing of Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Tayyiba’s 2nd command Abdul Rehman Makki. China has put a technical hold on Makki that will last for six months. In the past too, Beijing had put a hold on listing of Maulana Masood Azhar of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and it took a decade for New Delhi to list him as a UN listed terrorist.
Ambassador Ruchira explained that “double standards and continuing politicization have rendered the credibility of Sanctions Regime at an all-time low. We do hope that all members of the UNSC can pronounce together in one voice, sooner than later, when it comes to this collective fight against international terrorism.” Important to note, that the meeting on the issue of terrorism comes under the month-long presidency of China of the UNSC.