US embassy cable - 05NEWDELHI8188

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UIGHUR RESETTLEMENT: GOI UNLIKELY TO RESPOND POSITIVELY

Identifier: 05NEWDELHI8188
Wikileaks: View 05NEWDELHI8188 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy New Delhi
Created: 2005-10-21 13:00:00
Classification: CONFIDENTIAL
Tags: MOPS PREL PTER KAWC PHUM PREF PINR IN Human Rights India
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

C O N F I D E N T I A L NEW DELHI 008188 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/19/2015 
TAGS: MOPS, PREL, PTER, KAWC, PHUM, PREF, PINR, IN, Human Rights, India-China 
SUBJECT: UIGHUR RESETTLEMENT: GOI UNLIKELY TO RESPOND 
POSITIVELY 
 
REF: STATE 183800 
 
Classified By: Charge Robert O. Blake for Reasons 1.4 (B, D) 
 
1.  (C) In response to reftel demarche, MEA Joint Secretary 
(Americas) S Jaishankar told the Charge on October 15 that 
the GOI would consider the US request for assistance in 
resettling Uighur detainees, but suggested that the answer 
would be no.  "You know why," he added. 
 
Comment 
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2.  (C) At a period when New Delhi is eagerly pursuing closer 
ties with China and is trying to minimize even the public 
profile of its long-standing support for Tibetans in order to 
avoid antagonizing its neighbor, we do not expect the GOI to 
accept persons whom Beijing considers criminals and 
terrorists.  India's own internal terrorism concerns, and 
evidence of transnational linkages, only add to the bias 
inside the GOI against accepting this US request. 
MULFORD 

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