While ambassadors usually serve for 2 to 5 yrs in a host country, some envoys have served for over a decade due to their country’s ‘special relationship’ with India or other reasons.
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Despite its build, the Ambassador was no place to be in if there was an accident. It was a vintage vehicle that was way past its sell-by date even in 1991.
Data compiled by think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies shows US ambassadors to India have usually taken office within 6 to 7 months of the departure of their predecessors.
Like the car, nothing the party has done to reinvent itself has worked. Only way forward is to offer something looking towards the future, not in image of glorious past.
Greens have a sizeable support in the Western countries with clean air and blue skies, but not in India, where poisonous air, water and soil kill millions.
The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
Nice analysis. One way to look how at how a particular country is diplomatically important for other country is to look at what kind of postings do the diplomats get after being posted in that particular country. Former Indian envoy to China amb. Misri taking over as deputy NSA & former Chinese envoy to India & Pakistan amb. Weidong taking over as vice foreign minister in China ( just below the foreign minister who was Chinese envoy to the US) says something about the diplomatic importance that India & China give to each other. I’m not reading to much into the outgoing UK high commissioner being posted to Spain.
Anatoly Dobrynin was Soviet Ambassador to the United States from 1962 to 1986.
Nice analysis. One way to look how at how a particular country is diplomatically important for other country is to look at what kind of postings do the diplomats get after being posted in that particular country. Former Indian envoy to China amb. Misri taking over as deputy NSA & former Chinese envoy to India & Pakistan amb. Weidong taking over as vice foreign minister in China ( just below the foreign minister who was Chinese envoy to the US) says something about the diplomatic importance that India & China give to each other. I’m not reading to much into the outgoing UK high commissioner being posted to Spain.