Indian new High Commissioner-designate Shringla Harsh Vardhan Thursday said his first job is to carry out important decisions taken by Bangladesh and India.
Shringla said this at the airport yesterday after his arrival,
Prior to his arrival in Bangladesh, he was the Ambassador of India to Thailand.
In the course of his diplomatic career spanning 32 years, Shringla has held a variety of positions in New Delhi and in Indian Missions in Paris, Hanoi and Tel Aviv.
He has also served as Minister/Counsellor in the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, New York and as Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Durban, South Africa.
Shringla has served in the Ministry of External Affairs as Joint Secretary (Director General) responsible for Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Maldives.
Shringla has also headed the United Nations Political and SAARC Divisions in the Ministry.
Earlier, he served as Director of the Northern (Nepal and Bhutan) Division and Deputy Secretary of the Europe West Division.
Earlier, the high commissioners-designate of India and England went to the Foreign Ministry to discuss submission of their credentials..
British High Commissioner-designate Alison Blake too arrived at Dhaka yesterday.
Blake came to the foreign ministry in the morning and according to rules met the chief of protocol, said an official of the Foreign Ministry.
Both of them served in Pakistan at the same period.
Blake, in her career of 26 years, worked in defence-related departments for about 13 years.
She joined the civil service in 1989 and her first assignment was in the Ministry of Defence. She joined British Foreign Service in 1996 and immediately she was assigned to Nato, an intergovernmental military alliance, headquarters located in Brussels for four years.
She worked in Eastern Adriatic Department, British mission in Washington as First Secretary and in the Cabinet Office as deputy director, defence and overseas secretariat. In 2011, she joined Islamabad as deputy high commissioner and from there she came to Dhaka.
