Government to react on WikiLeaks only after complete facts come out: SM Krishna

Treading cautiously on the WikiLeaks issue, government today said it will react only after complete facts come out.

"Let the facts come out, then we will react," external affairs minister SM Krishna told reporters outside Parliament House.

He was asked to comment on the cable communication between the US Embassy in New Delhi and Washington leaked by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks.

Krishna's deputy in the ministry Preneet Kaur had recently said, "This (WikiLeaks issue) is a very sensitive issue. We have good bilateral relations (with the US) and they had already warned us. So, I think it is not the right time to comment on it...."

As part of its massive leak of a quarter million classified documents of the US government, the website released a "secret" cable issued by US secretary of state Hillary Clinton in which she has described India as a "self-appointed front-runner" for a permanent United Nations Security Council seat.

Clinton had also directed US envoys to seek minute details about Indian diplomats stationed at the United Nations headquarters, according to classified documents released by WikiLeaks.