UNSC members aware of JeM training camps, Masood Azhar being in Pakistan, must assign him as worldwide terrorist: India

New Delhi, Mar 9 India on Saturday said all UN Security Council (UNSC) members were aware of the JeM training camps and the nearness of terror group's chief Masood Azhar in Pakistan and encouraged the countries to assign him as a global terrorist.

The US, Britain, and France had moved a proposition at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) a week ago to assign the head of the JeM, which guaranteed duty regarding the Pulwama terror assault, as a worldwide fear based oppressor.

Service of External Affairs (MEA) Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar, at a media preparation, stated, "Every one of the 15 individuals from the UN Security Council had collectively issued an announcement unequivocally denouncing the Pulwama fear based oppressor assault."

All members from the UNSC are aware of the Jaish-e-Mohammed training camps in Pakistan and about the chief of Jaish-e-Mohammed Masood Azhar and his essence in Pakistan, he said. "We call upon all individuals from the UNSC to list Masood Azhar as a designated terrorist under 1267 UN sanctions committee," Kumar said.

Official sources had before said any UNSC part nation can look for elucidation on the proposition till March 13 following which the procedure to posting will start. Azhar's posting by the UNSC will subject him to a worldwide travel ban, asset freeze and arms embargo.

It is the fourth such bid at the UN in the last 10 years to list Azhar as a global terrorist.

In 2009, India unsuccessfully moved a proposal to designate Azhar. In 2016 again, India moved the proposal with the P3 - the US, the United Kingdom and France - in the UN's 1267 Sanctions Committee to ban Azhar.

In 2017, the P3 nations moved a similar proposal again. Be that as it may, on all occasions, China, a veto-wielding permanent member of the Security Council, blocked India's proposal from being adopted by the Sanctions Committee.