"Doublespeak In Commitment To Tackle Terrorism": India Slams China At UN
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China last year blocked a proposal to designate Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Sajid Mir as a global terrorist.
India has strongly condemned the countries that use their veto powers to block evidence-based terrorist listings at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and said the practice is uncalled for and smacks of doublespeak to the council's commitment in tackling the challenge of terrorism. "...We can no longer hide behind the smokescreen of the Intergovernmental Negotiations by delivering entrenched national positions in a process which has no time frame, and no text...."- PR in the United Nations Security Council today. pic.twitter.com/39x3J8riW4
"Let us turn to the subsidiary bodies inhabiting a subterranean world with their own custom-made working methods and obscure practices which do not find any legal basis in the charter or any of the council's resolutions. For instance, while we do get to know of the decisions of these committees on listing, the decisions on rejecting listing requests are not made public," India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ruchira Kamboj, said at a session of the United Nations Security Council.
"This is a disguised veto, but an even more impervious one that indeed merits a discussion amongst the wider membership. For genuine evidence-based listing proposals for globally sanctioned terrorists to be blocked without giving any due justification is uncalled for and smacks of doublespeak when it comes to the council's commitment in tackling the challenge of terrorism," she added, in what seems like a veiled attack on China.
