New Delhi :India issued a demarche to China on Thursday over the blocking of a US-backed proposal to sanction alleged Pathankot attack mastermind and JeM chief Masood Azhar at the United Nations Security Council.
It also hit out at China, saying there will be a consensus on the issue if there is a change in China’s stand.
External affairs ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said the matter had been taken up with the Chinese Ambassador in New Delhi and a similar demarche was being made in Beijing.
Observing that the proposal was not moved by India but by three permanent members of the UN Security Council — the US, the UK and France — he described it as a “classic counter- terrorism proposal” and hoped that China will also come around to accept this view.
