"To Girls Out There...": India's First Woman UN Envoy On Taking Charge
“To Girls Out There…”: India’s First Woman UN Envoy On Taking Charge
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Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj offered her credentials to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres right here on Tuesday as she took fee as India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, the united states’s first lady envoy at the arena body’s headquarters in New York.
Ruchira Kamboj, 58, a 1987 batch Indian Foreign Service officer, turned into formerly Ambassador of India to Bhutan and turned into in June appointed India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, succeeding Ambassador T S Tirumurti.
“Today,have offered my credentials to the Secretary General of the United Nations @antonioguterres as Permanent Representative/Ambassador to the @UN. A privilege to be the primary Indian lady to accept the honor to maintain this position. To the ladies out there,all of us could make it!” she tweeted.
India’s tenure on the Council will lead to December this 12 months while the united states may also preside as President of the effective UN organ for the month.
Ms Kamboj had additionally formerly served as a Counsellor at India’s Permanent Mission to the UN in New York from 2002-2005.
Ms Kamboj turned into the all-India girls’s topper of the 1987 Civil Services batch and the topper of the overseas carrier batch of that 12 months. She commenced her diplomatic adventure in Paris, in which she turned into published because the Third Secretary withinside the Indian Embassy in France from 1989-1991.
From Paris, she again to Delhi in which she labored as below secretary withinside the Europe West Division of the Ministry of External Affairs from 1991-96. From 1996-1999, she served in Mauritius as First Secretary (Economic and Commercial) and Head of Chancery on the Indian High Commission in Port Louis.
Ms Kamboj served because the excessive commissioner of India to South Africa, with concurrent accreditation to the Kingdom of Lesotho from July, 2017 to March, 2019. She assumed fee as Indian envoy to Bhutan on 17 May, 2019.
She joins the organization of girls Ambassadors on the Council inclusive of US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield, UK Permanent Representative (PR) Ambassador Barbara Woodward, Norway’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York Mona Juul, UAE’s Ambassador Lana Zaki Nusseibeh.
