United Nations: India has written a letter to UN chief Ban Ki-moon informing him of senior diplomat Devyani Khobragade's transfer as Counsellor to the Indian mission here and requested that she be accorded the same privileges and immunities as a diplomatic officer.
The letter was sent by India's Ambassador to the UN Asoke Mukerji to Ban around December 18-19 along with other documents and information like Khobragade's passport details.
Mukerji told PTI that he wrote the letter to Ban "informing him that we have now a new diplomat who is a Counsellor and we also write that we would like her to have the same privileges and immunities as a diplomatic officer. We also indicate where her name will be printed in our delegations' list".
The UN had confirmed on Friday that it has received official notification from India to accredit Khobragade, the deputy Consul General at the Indian Consulate here who was arrested on visa fraud charges, to the Indian Permanent Mission and said the request will be processed according to "standard procedures".
