Soni Thapa
Kathmandu, Nov 30
Among more than 2,50,000 leaked files, a portion of which was released on Sunday 2,600 documents are related to Nepal.
Although none of the document on Nepal was released on Sunday, the website will be releasing the embassy cables in the next few months. The cables are about the Maoist rebellion, Tibetan refugees, political parties and Nepal- India relations among other things.
According to the website, the secret document has 2,278 sent by the US embassy in Kathmandu to the US state department. Eighty four of those documents were labeled secret and 1,399 confidential while the remaining 795 are unclassified.
Among all the cables obtained by the Wikileaks, there are 8,320 documents on china, 1,095 on Afghanistan, 5,087 on India,4,775 on Pakistan, 3,166 on Srilanka and 2,182 on Bangladesh.
“The documents will give people around the world on unprecedented insight into US government’s foreign activities, the website said on the release of documents despite the strong words from Washington.
“The cables which date from 1966 to February 2010 contain confidential communications between 274 embassies in countries throughout the world and the state department in Washington” the website added.
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