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HASAN SUROOR / THE HINDU.
HASAN SUROOR / THE HINDU.
‘India's aim is to stay in good favor with NAM which presumably would support its candidacy for a non-permanent UN seat’
India's backing for the UN resolution on the Richard Goldstone Commission's report which heavily criticised Israel for its December 2008 military offensive against Gaza was interpreted by the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi as a bid to curry favour with Arab and Non-Aligned Movement countries in order to “build up support for its candidacy for a non-permanent seat in the run-up to October 2010 UN Security Council elections.”
American diplomatic cables accessed by The Hindu through WikiLeaks reveal heavy lobbying by the Embassy to get India to vote against the resolution which, it claimed, was “based on the biased conclusions of the Goldstone report.''
A cable (233042: confidential), sent under the name of Ambassador Timothy Roemer on November 4, 2009 — hours before the voting — said: “PolCouns [Political Counselor] delivered reftel demarche on November 4 to Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretaries for UN Political (UNP) and UN Economic and Social (UNES) Divisions and emphasized the significance the USG would place on India's support for opposing a resolution based on the biased conclusions of the Goldstone report.''
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