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India and the United States are in a “very momentous phase” in their relationship, Arun Kumar Singh, India’s newly appointed ambassador to the U.S. has said. Singh was speaking at a welcome reception hosted by the U.S.-India Business Council in Washington, D.C., May 6.
“India is moving quickly on its commitment to reform, throwing up tremendous opportunities for working together,” Singh said. “I am confident that the U.S. Business and Industry, will continue to seize the potential, and our cooperation will reinforce our strategic ties in a long-term framework,” he added.
Singh, formally resumed his charges after presenting copies of credentials to the Office of Chief of Protocol at the State Department last week. The 24th Indian Ambassador to the US, Singh till recently was the Indian envoy to France, in which capacity he was instrumental in the historic Paris visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Singh will present his formal credentials before President Barack Obama at a later date.
A career foreign service officer of 1979 batch, Singh till two years ago served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the Indian Embassy in Washington for four and half years from October 2008 to April 2013.
Reputed for his strategic thinking, Singh during his previous stint in Washington played a key role in strengthening of India-US relationship in the first term of the Obama Administration, during which he oversaw the State Visit of the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to U.S. in 2009 and India visit of President Obama a year later in 2010. Singh also served in New York at the Permanent Mission of India to the UN from 1993 to 1997 as counsellor.
From April 2005 to September 2008, he served as India’s ambassador to Israel. He has served as an Indian diplomat in a number of countries, including then-Soviet Union (1981-1982), Ethiopia (1982-1985) and Japan (1985-1988).
Singh speaks Russian and Japanese and has some knowledge of French and Hebrew.
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