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Accreditation to Devyani: UN says it will go by rules New Delhi, December 22 This was conveyed by the UN to the PMI on Friday when it received an official notification from India about the transfer of Devyani, who is currently at the centre of a diplomatic row between New Delhi and Washington over the manner in which she was arrested last week in an alleged visa fraud case. India has sent Devyani’s passport details as well as all other information about her to the UN headquarters, requesting that she be extended the same privileges and immunities which were available to other diplomats working for foreign missions accredited to the UN. India’s Ambassador to the UN Asoke Mukerji has met some top UN officials also in this regard. The move is aimed at getting a stronger diplomatic immunity for the 39-year-old diplomat. As India’s Deputy Consul General in New York, Devyani enjoys restricted diplomatic immunity from the prosecution. However, it is not clear if she would get immunity from the criminal charges levelled against her once she gets accredited to the UN. In its latest travel advisory issued in the wake of the diplomatic stand-off with New Delhi, the US has asked its citizens to be mindful of their personal
security. India hopeful of early resolution
NEW DElhi: “Something will happen,” said External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Sunday on the prospects of an early resolution of the stand-off arising out of the arrest of senior diplomat Devyani Khobragade in the US. Asked how hopeful he was of a resolution of the issue soon, Khurshid said, “World keeps moving forward, world never dies, world never stops. Something will happen.” On the US State Department welcoming his remarks on Indo-US ties, he said, “They (the US) must do something. Welcoming is not enough.” — PTI .
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The United Nations is believed to have told India that it would go strictly by “standard procedures” in reviewing Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade’s application for transfer as a Counsellor at the New York-based Permanent Mission of India (PMI) to the world body.