{"id":226431,"date":"2023-10-17T00:43:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T19:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=226431"},"modified":"2023-10-17T00:43:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T19:13:05","slug":"mea-spokesperson-arindam-bagchi-appointed-indias-ambassador-to-un-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/10\/17\/mea-spokesperson-arindam-bagchi-appointed-indias-ambassador-to-un-in-geneva\/","title":{"rendered":"MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi appointed India&#8217;s ambassador to UN in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Delhi, Oct 16 (PTI) External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi was on Monday appointed India&#8217;s permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) and other international organisations in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bagchi, a 1995-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) official, took over as spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in March 2021 and deftly handled a number of critical issues and developments including the eastern Ladakh border row, India&#8217;s COVID-19 response and New Delhi&#8217;s G20 presidency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Geneva, Bagchi would succeed Indra Mani Pandey who is set to return to New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Arindam Bagchi (IFS:1995), presently Additional Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, has been appointed as the next Ambassador\/Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Geneva,&#8221; the MEA said in a brief statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;He is expected to take up the assignment shortly,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is learnt that around four senior diplomats, including joint secretary (G20) Nagaraj Naidu Kakanur and high commissioner to Mauritius K Nandini Singla are being considered for the post of MEA spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Bagchi served as ambassador to Croatia and deputy high commissioner to Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also had a stint in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office as a director as well as at India&#8217;s permanent mission at the UN in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Oct 16 (PTI) External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi was on Monday appointed India&#8217;s permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) and other international organisations in Geneva. Bagchi, a 1995-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) official, took over as spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in March 2021 and deftly handled a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-226431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}