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NEW DELHI, 15 Jul:<\/strong> Seasoned diplomat Vikram Misri, widely regarded as an expert on China and national security, assumed charge as India’s new foreign secretary on Monday.<\/p>\n Misri, a 1989-batch Indian Foreign Service officer who was serving as the deputy national security adviser, succeeded Vinay Kwatra.<\/p>\n He assumed charge of the key position at a time India is looking to navigate various geo-political challenges, including its frosty ties with China following the lingering eastern Ladakh border row and the consequences of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n He has served in various capacities at the ministry of external affairs (MEA), in the prime minister’s office and in various Indian missions in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America.<\/p>\n He has the rare distinction of serving as private secretary to three prime ministers – Inder Kumar Gujral, Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n “Shri Vikram Misri assumed charge as Foreign Secretary today. #TeamMEA extends a warm welcome to Foreign Secretary Misri and wishes him a successful tenure ahead,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said on X.<\/p>\n Before he was appointed as the deputy NSA, Misri served as India’s ambassador to China from 2019-2021.<\/p>\n Misri is believed to have played a key role in talks between India and China after tensions flared significantly following the Galwan Valley clashes in June 2020.<\/p>\n The ties between the two countries nosedived following a fierce clash in the Galwan valley that marked the most serious military conflict between the two sides in decades.<\/p>\n In his illustrious career, Misri also served as India’s ambassador to Spain (2014-2016) and Myanmar (2016-2018,) besides having stints in many Indian missions, including Pakistan, the US, Germany, Belgium and Sri Lanka. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NEW DELHI, 15 Jul: Seasoned diplomat Vikram Misri, widely regarded as an expert on China and national security, assumed charge as India’s new foreign secretary on Monday. Misri, a 1989-batch Indian Foreign Service officer who was serving as the deputy national security adviser, succeeded Vinay Kwatra. He assumed charge of the key position at a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-244446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244446","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=244446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}