Don't want Devyani issue to negatively impact relationship: US

December 31, 2013 08:47

The United States does not want the arrest of senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade to negatively impact its important bilateral relationship with the country, a top US administration official has said.

"We don't want this to negatively impact our relationship,that we work on a broad range of issues together, our bilateral relationship is too important. And we've said repeatedly that we don't want it," the State Department Deputy Spokesperson, Marie Harf, told reporters at her daily news conference.

Harf was responding to questions about the impact on India-US relationship the arrest of an Indian diplomat has had.

Khobragade, 39, was arrested on December 12 on charges of making false declarations in a visa application for her maid Sangeeta Richard. She was released on a $250,000 bond.

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