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By Amit Baruah
NEW DELHI, JUNE 10. Shyam Saran, India's Ambassador to Nepal, is the new Foreign Secretary, an official announcement said today. A 1970-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, Mr. Saran will take over from Mr. Shashank, who retires on July 31. The Appointments Committee of the Union Cabinet has approved Mr. Saran's appointment. A high-profile diplomat, Mr. Saran was India's Ambassador to Indonesia and Myanmar, High Commissioner to Mauritius, Joint Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office, the Deputy Chief of Mission in Tokyo and Counsellor in the Indian Embassy in Beijing.
Many officers superseded
He supersedes several senior IFS officers, including the Indian Ambassador to France, Dilip Lahiri, the Ambassador to the European Union in Brussels, P.K. Singh, the Ambassador to the Netherlands, Shyamala B. Cowsik, the High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Nirupam Sen, and the Secretary in the External Affairs Ministry, R.M. Abhyankar. Mr. Saran will have a little over two years in his new assignment — he retires in September 2006. A senior Ministry official told this correspondent that Mr. Saran's appointment came just before the Foreign Secretary-level talks with Pakistan — scheduled at the end of this month. For the sake of continuity, it is possible that the Foreign Secretary-designate might sit in on the talks along with Mr. Shashank. A similar thing happened in June 1997 when the Foreign Secretary-designate, K. Raghunath, sat in on talks with Pakistan along with the then Foreign Secretary, Salman Haider.
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