*ISLAMABAD: *Pakistan and China have caught up in a rare embarrassingsituation in their bilateral relation upon the issue of the FinancialAction Task Force vote in Paris.

However the things are not yet fully clear as to what happened as US wassuccessful in voting against Pakistan in presence of China at the forum.

Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Yao Jing on Tuesday said he can’t say thatBeijing did not support Pakistan in Financial Action Task Force (FATF)meeting during which the US moved a motion to put Pakistan on ‘grey-list.’

While addressing a seminar on Challenges and Opportunities facing ShanghaiCooperation Organization, the envoy said he does not know yet what happenedin Paris as it is a very technical issue.

“China has always praised Pakistan’s efforts against terrorism and extendedits full support at every forum,” he asserted.

The week-long FATF meeting was held to decide on the US-led motion seekingto put Pakistan on its ‘grey-list’ for not taking concrete measures againstterror finance.

Despite claims of Indian media, FATF has not mentioned such move againstPakistan in its statement issued after the meeting. Pakistani officialsstated that country has been given three-month breather to take essentialmeasures to avoid action.

Meanwhile, Chinese foreign ministry’s spokesperson also said that Chinahighly valued Pakistan’s active measures to strengthen financialsupervision and crack down on terrorist financing.

He asked the international community to view objectively and evaluatePakistan’s efforts in the field of international anti-terrorism instead ofaccusing Pakistan of bias with prejudice.

“Pakistan has taken active measures to strengthen financial supervision andcrack down on terrorist financing and made important progress. China giveshigh recognition to this,” Lu Kang said during his regular briefing whileresponding to a question asked by the APP Correspondent.

“We hope all concerned parties in the international community can give anobjective and fair assessment of this,” he added.