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Tribune News Service
New Delhi, April 29
With India poised to join the United Nations Security Council in 2021 as a non-permanent member, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has announced a change of guard with veteran diplomat TS Tirumurti named as India’s next Permanent Representative to the United Nations, replacing Syed Akbaruddin after a tenure of over four and a half years.
The MEA also named two envoys to Gulf countries, posting the head of its Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran desk Deepak Mittal as the next Ambassador to Qatar.
Piyush Srivastava, Joint Secretary (North) in MEA has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Bahrain.
The MEA transferred the Ambassador to Philippines Jaideep Mazudar to head the embassy in Austria. Joint Secretary in MEA Namrata Kumar has been appointed the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Slovenia.
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