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"Robert Blackwill is the US ambassador to India. Everything else is speculation, which is damaging to Ambassador Blackwill as well as to our relationship with India," a US state department statement circulated by the New Delhi mission said.
"He has not been asked to resign. He has not resigned. He is not leaving his post," it said.
The statement also quoted from the speech of US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Christina Rocca at the Confederation of Indian Industry meet in New Delhi on Tuesday, to say that Washington knew how fortunate it was to have Ambassador Blackwill in New Delhi.
"You are doing a superb job and you personally have done so much to push this bilateral relationship forward," she had said.
Reacting to reports that an inspector general was reviewing Blackwill's performance, acting state department spokesperson Lynn Cassel had told reporters in Washington, "Ambassador Blackwill is our ambassador. I don't know anything about the morale at the embassy in Delhi. I haven't been there. So it's just beyond my expertise at all."
The Washington Post on Wednesday quoted diplomatic sources as saying that Blackwill was 'incredibly arrogant' and treated his staff like furniture.
It added that the inspector general's office had sent two teams to New Delhi to review Blackwill's running of the mission.
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