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This America should not give us advice on human rights: Modi
March 22, 2011 Visionmp.com news service
On Tuesday Narendra Modi Chief Minister of Gujrat to said the Central government should address the issue of US interference in the internal affairs of India.
Also he said that the U.S. need not to preach India on human rights in the wake of its concerns on this issue in his State as reflected in leaked diplomatic cables from an American Consul, accessed by The Hindu through WikiLeaks.
At the same time Modi noted that the cables had also spoken of him being ‘incorruptible’ and Gujarat being a ‘progressive’ State.
“(Michael) Owen had discussed Gujarat… I looked into his eyes and said America should not give us advice on human rights,” Mr. Modi recalled. Michael. S. Owen was US Consul General in Mumbai when he had a meeting with Mr. Modi in 2006.
Modi said, “This America should not give us advice on human rights. I am son of India and I know what human rights violations you have done. Good that dialogue is faithfully reproduced.”
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