Beijing, April 1
China today said it has made “positive progress” with other parties on the issue of declaring Pakistan-based terror group JeM chief Masood Azhar as an international terrorist but warned that a US-proposed draft resolution on it will only complicate the matter.
Beijing also said the US was aware of the progress made by China with other parties but still wanted to bypass the UN 1267 terror panel and push the draft resolution through the Security Council.
“After the application of designation (of Azhar) was proposed at the committee, China has been in close communication and coordination with various parties. As I said, we have been working with various parties and (our efforts) have made some positive progress. The US side knows that very well,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said here.
“... But under such circumstances, the US is still pushing the Security Council to adopt a draft resolution,” the spokesperson added. Geng was responding to a question of what if the US pushes the Security Council to adopt its draft resolution to list Azhar.
Last week, Washington circulated self-proposed draft in the UN Security Council to declare Azhar a terrorist after China for the fourth time put a technical hold on the resolution moved by the US, the UK and France at the 1267 committee last month.
China slammed the US move, saying it had undermined the authority of the 1267 committee and would complicate the matter. Geng said the majority a UN Security Council was not in favour of pushing the US-drafted resolution. — IANS
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