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‘Concerned about implications’: Top US diplomat on citizenship law

Saturday, 14th December 2019

The United States is worried about the ramifications of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in India, a top American negotiator liable for observing strict worldwide opportunity said on Friday.

"One of India's extraordinary qualities is its Constitution. As a kindred majority rule government, we regard India's establishments, however, are worried about the ramifications of the CAB Bill," Sam Brownback, Ambassador everywhere for International Religious Freedom, said in a tweet.

"We trust the administration will keep its protected duties, remembering for the strict opportunity," he said in his tweet, which comes days this week's 2+2 pastoral among India and the US.

Outer Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh are booked to land at Washington DC one week from now for the second 2+2 pastoral with their American partners - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper - on December 18.

In the meantime, at a Congressional preparation composed by the Indian American Muslim Council, Emgage Action and the Hindus for Human Rights, Gregory Stanton of Genocide Watch communicated worry on Thursday over the human rights circumstance in Kashmir and Assam.

Stanton is known for making the renowned "Ten Stages of Genocide" as an introduction to the US Department of State when he worked there in 1996. He likewise drafted the UN Security Council goals that made the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda and the Burundi Commission of Inquiry.

Asserting that Assam saw "the development of a guise for removal [of Muslims]", Stanton said the "continuous slaughter" in both Kashmir and Assam was an "exemplary case" and pursued the example of the "Ten Stages of Genocide".