New Delhi, March 18 -- Vidya Bhushan Soni, Former Indian Ambassador to Ukraine, said on Wednesday that the North East has been made accessible to foreigners only recently, and earlier it was out of bounds, mainly because the local government there was not able to control the area.

Soni, while talking about Ukrainians and US citizen being arrested from the area said that it was possible that those people would create disruptions.

"Well, first of all, let me tell you the area we are talking about in our northeast is a very sensitive area. And for decades, immediately after independence, that area was out of bounds for foreigners, for the reason that, I mean, there was a possibility of somebody making some trouble there. So it was for that...