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Indian American Officials Asked About 'Your Country', 'Your Government'
WASHINGTON: In an extremely awkward incident, a newly elected member of the U.S. House of Representatives mistook two senior Indian American officials of the Barack Obama administration to be from India and asked them questions about "your country" and "your government".
"I'm familiar with your country; I love your country," freshman Republican Curt Clawson told Nisha Biswal and Arun Kumar at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Foreign Policy online reported.
"Anything I can do to make the relationship with India better, I'm willing and enthusiastic about doing so," he continued amid looks of confusion among State Department and Congressional staff attending the hearing.
Biswal is the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairsand Arun Kumar is the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Global Markets and Director General of the US and Foreign Commercial Service.
Clawson, apparently confused by their Indian surnames and skin tone also asked Biswal and Arun Kumar if the Indian government could loosen restrictions on US capital investments in the country.
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Source: IANS
