“The United States has been taking the safety and security of the diplomatic missions that are present in our country quite seriously,” US Department of State Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel said on Thursday.
Vedant Patel said that the US continues to be in close touch with India on a number of issues. “We take the safety and security of the diplomatic missions that we host in the United States and the diplomats that work in them quite seriously,” Patel said while responding to a question on ‘whether the US government or the Indian government was in touch with State Department over the incidents that took place outside the consulate in San Francisco last week.
He also said, “We are in close touch with our Indian partners on a number of issues, but including on this we made sure to remain in close touch with them as well as the appropriate local entities, depending on where these various missions and consulates were located.”