Sherpa, a seasoned Indian Overseas Service (IFS) officer from the 2002 batch, is at the moment serving as Joint Secretary within the Ministry of Exterior Affairs.
“Tshering Wangchuk Sherpa (IFS:2002), presently Joint Secretary within the Ministry, has been appointed as the following Ambassador of India to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,” the MEA assertion learn.
He's anticipated to take up the task shortly, the Ministry added.
India and Vietnam share historically shut and heat bilateral relations which are denominated as a complete strategic partnership.
India was the Co-Chairman of the Worldwide Fee for Supervision and Management shaped pursuant to the Geneva Accord of 1954.India initially maintained Consulate-level relations with the then North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Viet Nam) and South Viet Nam, and later established full diplomatic relations with Vietnam on 7 January 1972.India-Vietnam relations have been elevated in 2016 to the extent of ‘Complete Strategic Partnership' in the course of the go to of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Vietnam; earlier, the relations have been designated as ‘Strategic Partnership'.
The event of India-Vietnam relations is at the moment guided by a “Joint Imaginative and prescient for Peace, Prosperity and Individuals” adopted by Prime Minister Modi and the then Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc of Vietnam in the course of the Digital Summit held on 21 December 2020.
Prime Minister Modi and Normal Secretary of the Communist Get together of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong had a telephonic dialog on 15 April 2022.
In 2022, the 2 nations celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the institution of diplomatic relations, and each are actively working collectively to additional strengthen their multidimensional cooperation.
Earlier this week, Rohit Rathish, Joint Secretary within the Ministry of Exterior Affairs, was appointed because the Excessive Commissioner of India to Seychelles.
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