Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations

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Ambassador of India to the United Nations
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T S Tirumurti.jpg
Incumbent
T. S. Tirumurti
since April 2020
StyleHis/Her Excellency[1]
AppointerPresident of India
Formation1947
Websitewww.pminewyork.org

The Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations is India's foremost diplomatic representative to the United Nations (UN). The permanent Representative (UN ambassador)[2] is the head of the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations in New York City.

The current Permanent Representative of India to UN is T. S. Tirumurti , who was appointed in April 2020.[3][4]

Indian Mission to the UN Headquarters in New York

List[]

This is a list of Indian Permanent Representative to the United Nations.[5][6]

Name Portrait Entered office Left office Notes
Samar Sen 1946 1948 Permanent liaison officer to the UN
B. N. Rau Sir Benegal Rama Rau, governor of Reserve Bank of India.jpg March 1948 1952 Also representative to the United Nations Security Council (1950 to 1952)
Rajeshwar Dayal 1952 August 1954
Arthur S. Lall September 1954 December 1959
Chandra Shekhar Jha January 1959 1962
B. N. Chakrvarthy August 1962 July 1965
G. Parthasarathy August 1965 December 1968
Samar Sen January 1969 July 1974
Rikhi Jaipal July 1974 May 1979
Brajesh Mishra Brajesh Mishra.jpg June 1979 March 1981
Natarajan Krishnan April 1981 September 1986
C. R. Gharekhan October 1986 December 1992
Mohammad Hamid Ansari Hamid ansari.jpg January 1993 January 1995 Also served as Vice President of India from 2007 to 2017
Prakash Shah February 1995 July 1997
Kamalesh Sharma Commonwealth Secretary-General (cropped).jpg August 1997 May 2002
Vijay K. Nambiar May 2002 May 2004
Nirupam Sen September 2004 March 2009
Hardeep Singh Puri Hardeep Singh Puri - 2018 (45176824921) (cropped).jpg May 2009 February 2013 Currently serving as Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the and Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and as Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India
Asoke Kumar Mukerji April 2013 December 2015
Syed Akbaruddin Syed Akbaruddin.jpeg January 2016 April 2020
T. S. Tirumurti T S Tirumurti.jpg 29 April 2020[7] Present

See also[]

  • India and the United Nations
  • List of current Permanent Representatives to the United Nations
  • Foreign relations of India
  • Diplomatic missions of India

References[]

  1. ^ "About us". Retrieved 2013-08-21.
  2. ^ "History of Ambassadors", United States Mission to the United Nations, March 2011, webpage: USUN-a Archived 2013-04-29 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ^ "Permanent Mission of India to the UN, New York". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Shri T. S. Tirumurti appointed as the next Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations at New York". www.mea.gov.in/. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  5. ^ "Permanent Representatives of India to the United Nations". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
  6. ^ Mukerji, Asoke (2015). India and The United Nations. New York: Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations. pp. 368–374.
  7. ^ "Shri T. S. Tirumurti appointed as the next Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations at New York". Retrieved 31 July 2020.

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