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From: Wally Doerge <76702.1202@compuserve.com>
Subject: NEW TRAVEL INFO -- India
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STATE DEPARTMENT TRAVEL INFORMATION - India
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India - Public Announcement
July 14, 1995

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
For Immediate Release

As a result of the recent kidnapping of U.S. citizens and Europeans 
in Kashmir, the United States State Department repeats its 
previously published information from the India Consular Information 
Sheet of November 25, 1994, about the danger of travel to Jammu and 
Kashmir.  In addition, the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi has issued a 
notice prohibiting travel to the Kashmir area for official U.S. 
Government employees in India, either on permanent or temporary 
assignment.  Private U.S. citizens may wish to take this into 
consideration when making travel plans.

The Kashmir Valley and the surrounding mountains, in particular, 
remain a dangerous area where terrorist activities and violent civil 
disturbances continue as the result of actions by militant 
separatist groups.

In addition to the most recent kidnappings, an American tourist was 
fatally shot in July 1994 in Srinagar, and in June 1994 militants 
held two British hikers hostage for eighteen days before releasing 
them.

U.S citizens in India may wish to contact the U.S. Embassy in New 
Delhi for updated security information.  The local U.S. Embassy 
number is: 600651.


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