U.N. approves India's request to accredit diplomat charged by U.S.

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

U.N. approves India's request to accredit diplomat charged by U.S.

BY LOUIS CHARBONNEAU
UNITED NATIONS Mon Dec 23, 2013 5:07pm EST

(Reuters) - The United Nations has approved a request from India to accredit a New York-based diplomat after her arrest by U.S. authorities on criminal charges including visa fraud, a U.N. official said on Monday.

Indian media said the request to transfer Devyani Khobragade, who was deputy consul-general in New York, to the United Nations was aimed at ending the stand-off with the United States in the hopes that her new diplomatic status could allow New Delhi to bring her home without the prosecution proceeding.

"The U.N. has processed the request to register Ms. Khobragade as a member of the Permanent Mission of India to the U.N.," a U.N. source said on condition of anonymity. "However, the final stop in the process is the U.S. (State Department)."

Khobragade's arrest on December 12 has enraged India, which is demanding that all charges be dropped against her. She was strip searched when arrested in what the U.S. Marshals Service said was a routine procedure imposed on any new arrestee at the federal courthouse.

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[Roci]

1. Yet another

sterling example of America playing by it's own "rules", and then wandering around like an innocent wide-eyed puppy, wondering why in the world that everyone in the world does not lover her.
What part of "diplomatic immunity" does the American Gestapo not understand? (Rhetorical question, for these goons, there are no rules, save for the ones they make up as they go along.)

[bemildred]

2. I see it as an interesting collision of two powerful egos used to getting their way.

(The prosecutorial/security authorities behind this and the "diplomat".)