NEW DELHI, India is calling for Washington knocked down from the Indian Ambassador to the United States during a security check on a Mississippi airport last weekend to apologize for, but U.S. officials are to defend the action.
A senior Indian diplomat said in an interview on Thursday that India will soon make a formal complaint through diplomatic channels the knocked down the Ambassador Meera Shankar, who wore a traditional Indian sari.
"There is a certain code of conduct, which has to be observed" in the treatment of foreign diplomats in the U.S., the unnamed diplomat said.
But officials at the US Department of Homeland Security in Washington said Thursday that local transportation security administration employees of the right call occurs when below woman Shankar knocked you.
The incident Saturday at Jackson-Evers international airport in Jackson, Miss, caused a sensation in the Indian media. Mrs Shankar was invited by a local University to give a speech for international studies program. The Ambassador was pulled from the line and knocked down by a female agent by TSA, treated the US Government agency, the airport security.
Associated press Indian Ambassador to the United States Meera ShankarTSA spokesman Nicholas Kimball officials defend actions. "After a review of this passenger screening experience, we determined that the TSA officers followed proper procedures," he said. "Officers must use their professional discretion, to determine if a particular item of clothing could hide a threat object." "Passengers can request implemented a pat down in private."
Visiting are said when entering the United States envoy diplomatic credentials to present, but are still the same screening process than any other. Diplomatic immunity, known forever ambassadors from the parking ticket, among others, should not exclude diplomats from airport security screens, Assistant Secretary of State p.j Crowley said at a press conference Wednesday.
Mr Crowley said that he learned of the incident Thursday and that he had not heard a formal complaint by the Indian Government. He deferred to the TSA on whether the diplomat was handled appropriately but had said he thought normal procedure been followed.
Write toTom Wright tom.wright@wsj.com and Danny Yadron at the danny.yadron@wsj.com
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