Kathmandu, June 25
Newly appointed
Indian ambassador to Nepal, Naveen Srivastava, arrived in Kathmandu on Saturday
to assume his post.
The Embassy of
India in Kathmandu said in a tweet that it welcomed the envoy in Nepal.
Officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nepal had also reached the
Tribhuvan International Airport to welcome him. He will succeed Vinay Mohan
Kwatra who is elevated to the post of the Foreign Secretary of India.
Indian
government had appointed him as the envoy to Nepal in May following Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's visit to Lumbini on the occasion of the Buddha Jayanti.
Before coming to
assume his duties in Nepal, Srivastava was chief of East Asia Desk at the
Ministry of External Affairs, India. He has served as the India's ambassador to
Cambodia from 2015 to 2017 and consul general of the country to Shangahai,
China from 2012 to 2015.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 26 June 2022.
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