India is not concerned over the recent secret documents released by the whistleblower website Wikileaks, the Indian foreign minister said on Monday.
While the entire international community strongly condemned the publication of the classified cables from U.S. embassies around the world, including in Moscow, India said it was interested in their further development.
"The Indian government is not really concerned, but we are definitely very interested in finding out what Wikileaks is all about. Because they said that they were going to put on the web 4 million documents. So we are watching with interest," Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna said.
However, Islamabad slammed WikiLeaks diplomatic cables covering Pakistani nuclear program.
"We condemn this irresponsible leak of the secret documents," Dawn News TV channel cited the spokesman for the Pakistani Foreign Minister Abdul Basit as saying.
Wikileaks cited Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah as referring to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, as the greatest obstacle to Islamabad's progress.
"When the head is rotten, it affects the whole body," he said.
The documents also say Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin plays the role of "Batman" to President Dmitry Medvedev's "Robin".
In other revelations sure to cause embarrassment in diplomatic circles, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was also described as a "physically and politically weak" leader whose "frequent late nights and penchant for partying hard mean he does not get sufficient rest," according to Elizabeth Dibble, US charge d'affaires in Rome.
Also, a U.S. embassy cable described Afghan leader Hamid Karzai "an extremely weak man" who takes seriously "bizarre stories or plots against him."
NEW DELHI, November 29 (RIA Novosti)
