New Delhi, December 01: Treading cautiously on the Wikileaks issue, government today said it will react only after complete facts come out.
“Let the facts come out, then we will react,” External Affairs Minister S M Krishna told reporters outside Parliament House.
He was asked to comment on the cable communication between the US Embassy here and Washington leaked by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks.
Krishna’s deputy in the Ministry Preneet Kaur had recently said, “This (wikileaks issue) is a very sensitive issue. We have good bilateral relations (with the US) and they had already warned us. So, I think it is not the right time to comment on it….”
As part of its massive leak of a quarter million classified documents of the US government, the website released a “secret” cable issued by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in which she has described India as a “self-appointed front-runner” for a permanent UNSC seat.
Clinton had also directed US envoys to seek minute details about Indian diplomats stationed at the United Nations headquarters, according to classified documents released by WikiLeaks.
–PTI