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India strongly criticized an "unresponsive" Security Council on Wednesday for
being indecisive on sanctioning leaders of organizations it itself designates as terrorist
entities after China extended its "technical hold" on India's bid for a UN ban against JeM
chief Masood Azhar. India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Syed
Akbaruddin told the UN General Assembly that the 15-nation Security Council, the
"principal organ" tasked with the maintenance of peace and security, has in a variety of
ways become "unresponsive to the needs of our time and ineffective to meeting the
challenges it is confronted with".
Without naming China, Akbaruddin referred to its technical hold on India's bid
against Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar, saying the Council is a body that
"ponders for six months on whether to sanction leaders of organizations it has itself
designated as terrorist entities". "Then, unable to decide, it gives itself three more months
to further consider this issue. One has to expectantly wait for nine months before the
process is completed to know if Council members have decided on a single issue," he
said in the General Assembly debate on the Report of the Secretary General on the Work
of the Organization here.
On March 31 this year, China - a veto-wielding permanent member of the Security
Council - had blocked India's move to put a ban on Azhar under the al-Qaida Sanctions
Committee of the Council. China was the sole member in the 15-nation UN organ to put
a hold on India's application with all other 14 members of the Council supporting New
Delhi's bid to place Azhar on the 1267 sanctions list that would subject him to an assets
freeze and travel ban. The extended technical hold on it will allow more time.