India has strongly criticised the lack of transparency in the functioning of the UN Security Council’s Sanctions Committee which took over a decade to blacklist Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist.
India’s remarks came a month after getting Azhar blacklisted as a global terrorist by the UN. Referring to the subterranean world of subsidiary bodies in the Security Council, India’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador K Nagaraj Naidu said: “Over the years we have seen several such bodies being created and tasked with crucial responsibilities such as taking decisions on listing and delisting individuals and entities from the various sanctions regimes of the Council.” Mr. Naidu, speaking in the UN Security Council Thursday at an open debate on the ‘Working Methods’ of the Council, said that not only do these subsidiary bodies have varied and custom-made working methods, but they also follow obscure practices which do not find any legal basis in the Charter or any of the Council’s resolutions.
“These committees undertake their work outside of the norms of transparency and there is hardly any effort to make the broader UN membership or the international community aware of their various decisions,” he said.
Lack of transparency in functioning of UNSC’s Sanctions Committee: India criticises
