Devyani case: Past to determine way forward with US
14 Jan 2014 5:54 AM IST
India has already made it clear that it will continue to press for dropping of visa fraud charges against senior diplomat Devyani Khobragade, who was arrested on 12 December in New York and subsequently indicted by a jury in the case. Immediately after the indictment, Khobragade was asked to leave by the US, which also granted her full diplomatic immunity.
‘We will take each day as it comes because it is important to look back and forward. The relationship between India and the US is not a one-issue relationship. We have a series of issues that we are engaged. We will take this matter after carefully examining what has been our experience in the past and we will move forward on this broad relationship that we have,’ spokesman in the ministry of external affairs said here.
At a briefing in Washington after the departure of Khobragade, state department spokesman Jen Psaki said, ‘This has clearly been a challenging time in the US-India relationship. We expect and hope that this will now come to closure and the Indians will now take
significant steps with us to improve our relationship and return it to a more constructive place.’
Meanwhile, drawing lessons from the Khobragade episode, foreign ministry has also decided to ‘vigorously’ pursue its proposal with finance ministry to make ‘significant’ changes in the status of domestic assistants like maids helping Indian diplomats in the US and the Europe.
Noting that the proposal was in ‘gestation’ from more than an year with finance ministry, the Spokesperson said the ministry hopes to pursue vigorously the proposal, which has legal, financial and visa status implications.
‘We will take each day as it comes because it is important to look back and forward. The relationship between India and the US is not a one-issue relationship. We have a series of issues that we are engaged. We will take this matter after carefully examining what has been our experience in the past and we will move forward on this broad relationship that we have,’ spokesman in the ministry of external affairs said here.
At a briefing in Washington after the departure of Khobragade, state department spokesman Jen Psaki said, ‘This has clearly been a challenging time in the US-India relationship. We expect and hope that this will now come to closure and the Indians will now take
significant steps with us to improve our relationship and return it to a more constructive place.’
Meanwhile, drawing lessons from the Khobragade episode, foreign ministry has also decided to ‘vigorously’ pursue its proposal with finance ministry to make ‘significant’ changes in the status of domestic assistants like maids helping Indian diplomats in the US and the Europe.
Noting that the proposal was in ‘gestation’ from more than an year with finance ministry, the Spokesperson said the ministry hopes to pursue vigorously the proposal, which has legal, financial and visa status implications.
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