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India to push for UN ban on JeM chief
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- Beijing has vetoed each of the past three attempts to list Azhar: in 2016, 2017 and most recently in 2018.
- China agreed to the UNSC press statement that named the JeM after considerable wrangling over the wording, particularly insisting on leaving out any direct reference to Pakistan in it and objecting to any “political statements.
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- Indian preparation: Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale is coordinating the diplomatic pressure India hopes to build on Pakistan in the upcoming weeks by meeting focused groups of Ambassadors from different regions with specific lists of expectations from each.
- EU’s role:
- In particular, the European Union is being asked to add Pakistan to its own blacklist and to conduct a serious review of the GSP+ (Generalised System of Preferences) status if it fails to crack down on the groups targeting India, particularly JeM and Lashkar-e-Taiba.
- At present the EU has put only one country, DPRK or North Korea on its blacklist.
Source
The Hindu