Recently selected Ambassador of India to Nepal, Manjeev Singh Puri, has arrived Nepal on Saturday. He arrived at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu at the beginning of today.
Puri is the 24th represetative of India to Nepal. He supplanted Ranjit Rae who finished his three-and-a-half year term on February 28.
Puri will present his letter of belief to President Bidhya Devi Bhandari on Sunday.
Before Puri was designated as represetative to Nepal, he was filling in as an Indian Ambassador to Belgium.
An Indian Foreign Service officer of the 1982 group, Puri had filled in as Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations in New York from 2009 to 2013. He was a senior individual from India's Security Council group amid the years 2011-2012, when India served on the Security Council.
Diplomat Puri was effectively required with issues of feasible improvement and condition and was a lead mediator in India's designation for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 2012, Indian Embassy sources said.
He was a key individual from India's designation at different Climate Change transactions, including the Major Economies Forum and the Conference of Parties of the UNFCCC in Copenhagen in December 2009. Envoy Puri served on the Board of the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate and is on the Advisory Board of India's most notable condition association, TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi).
From 2005-09, he headed the United Nations Division in the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi managing financial and social issues.
Over the span of his Foreign Service profession, Ambassador Puri has served twice in Germany (in Bonn from 1984-86 and Berlin from 1991-94) and communicates in German. He was the facilitator of the Festival of India in German in 1991-92 and set up the Indian Cultural Center in Berlin.
Envoy Puri's different postings have been Bangkok (1986-89), Caracas (1989-91), Cape Town (1998-2002), Muscat (2002-05) and as Deputy Chief of Protocol accountable for abnormal state visits in the Ministry of External Affairs from 1994-98.
Manjeev Singh Puri (conceived 1959) has a Masters degree in Management and had worked for Hindustan Unilever before joining the Government of India. He did his BA (Honors) in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, with top respects. He is hitched to Mrs. Namrita Puri and they have two kids.
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