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China rejects April 23 deadline for Azhar ban

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Beijing: China on Wednesday dismissed reports that the US, UK and France have served it an ultimatum until April 23 to lift its "technical hold" on designating Pakistan-based JeM chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist but claimed that the vexed issue is "moving towards settlement".

After the Pulwama attack, a fresh proposal to designate — Azhar under the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council was moved by France, the UK and the US.

However, China bloc-ked the bid by putting a "technical hold" on the proposal. Following this, the US backed by the UK and France moved dire-ctly to UN Security Council (UNSC) to blacklist Azhar.

China, a veto wielding member of the UNSC, opposed the move, saying the issue should be resolved at the 1267 Committee which also functioned under the top UN body. Reacting to reports that the three countries have fixed April 23 as deadline for China to lift its technical hold in the 1267 committee or else they would press for a discussion on the issue at the UNSC itself, foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said, I don't know where you get such information."

He said both the UNSC and its subsidiary body 1267 committee have rules and procedures. "You need to get clarification from the sources about where you get such information. China's position is very clear. This issue should be resolved through cooperation. We don't believe that any efforts without the consensus of members will achieve a satisfying results," he said.

"On the issue of listing Azhar, China's position remains unchanged. We also stay in communication with relevant parties. The matter is moving towards the direction of settlement," he said.

"The relevant parties are forcing new resolution through the UN Security Council. We firmly oppose that," he said. Without directly referring to the US, Lu said, "We hope the relevant country can respect the opinion of most members of the UNSC to act in a cooperative manner."

Asked to elaborate on his assertion that the issue which had been pending for years due to series of technical holds put by China had moved towards resolution, Lu merely reiterated that the matter is moving towards the direction of settlement. On April 1, China claimed that positive progress has been made to resolve the issue.

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