French Ambassador Alexandre Ziegler has said, the listing of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar by the UN as a global terrorist is a 
Mr Ziegler said, on the very morrow of the Pulwama attack in February 2019, France spared no effort to get a communiqué from the UNSC condemning the terrorist attack. This was a crucial political step, necessary before any discussion on listing Masood Azhar could take place. The French envoy said it was bit odd that the JeM was banned by the UN after attacks on the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly and the Indian Parliament in 2001, but not its leader.
France, the UK and the US had moved a fresh proposal to declare Azhar as a global terrorist by the UN in the wake of the February 14 Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed.