India's perseverance has largely been responsible for the stepping up of international pressure to designate the Pakistan-based, LeT deputy chief Makki as a global terrorist.
Tirumurti, an IFS officer of 1985, will replace Syed Akbaruddin, who is retiring. Tirumurti, a former High Commissioner to Malaysia, has served in the Foreign Secretary’s office and was one of India’s representatives to the Palestinian territories in the 1990s.
The current move by China was the third such attempt to raise the Kashmir issue in the UNSC since August last when the special status granted to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370.
Syed Akbaruddin also tagged a 2017 photo of then Pakistani Permanent Representative Maleeha Lodhi displaying a picture of an injured Gaza girl and then portraying her as a Kashmiri pellet gun victim.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan had on Wednesday pledged to present the 'Kashmir case' at the UN General Assembly 'like no one ever did before'.
They are sold in sheets with 10 stamps and stickers and a large picture of the UN headquarters lit up for Diwali.
India has been a key partner in preventing and addressing sexual exploitation and abuse, and there have been no allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse against uniformed personnel from India since 2013.
Evaluating the functioning of the UN, Akbaruddin said the Council was failing to look at future risk scenarios and taking action to deal with them through "continuous attention rather than one-shot solutions."
New Delhi has blamed Pakistan for the killing of security personnel in Jammu and Kashmir and accusing it of glorifying terrorism.
This successful international campaign against the Islamic State should be replicated in Afghanistan against the Taliban's drug trade, he said.
