United Nations: The "sanctity and credibility" of the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee have been preserved with the blacklisting of JeM chief Masood Azhar, Indonesia's envoy to the UN and Chair of the Committee Dian Triansyah Djani said. The Indonesian Permanent Representative, who assumed the Presidency of the 15-nation UN Security Council for the month of May, thanked all members of the 1267 Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee after the designation of Azhar as a global terrorist.

"I just would like to underline... it's not only the function of the Chair, but all members of the Committee that have been working very hard (on the issue of listing Azhar). But what is more important is not the role of the Chair but what is more important is that we have been able to preserve the sanctity and credibility of the Committee and we have been able to have the listing," Djani said during a press briefing at the UN headquarters on Wednesday. He was responding to a question by PTI on the blacklisting of Azhar and his role in the successful outcome at the Committee, of which he is the Chair. "As I mentioned, we Indonesians are very humble. I'm just doing my function as the Chair trying to facilitate, to bring all parties together, of course, in line with the guidelines," he said. India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin specifically thanked Djani in a video statement issued after Azhar's designation.