Vijay Gokhale appointed new Foreign Secretary of India
Monday - January 1, 2018 8:20 pm ,
Category : INDIA
Vijay Gokhale appointed new Foreign Secretary of India
New Delhi Jan 1 (IANS) The government on Monday announced the appointment of Vijay Keshav Gokhale former ambassador in Beijing as the new Foreign Secretary to replace S. Jaishankar who retires on January 28.
The appointment of Gokhale currently Secretary (Economic Relations) was cleared by the Appoinments Committee of the Cabinet an official statement said.
Gokhale is a 1981 batch officer of the Indian Foreign Service and has served Indian embassies in Germany and Malaysia.
He will take over from Jaishankar who was appointed Foreign Secretary on January 29 2015 for two years and given a one-year extension in January last year.
--IANS
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