Bangladesh High Commissioner to India M Riaz Hamidullah on Thursday presented credentials to Indian President Droupadi Murmu.
The president of India accepted credentials from the ambassadors/high commissioners of Thailand, Costa Rica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Turkiye, Bangladesh and Kazakhstan at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Hamidullah served as the high commissioner of Bangladesh to Sri Lanka and ambassador to the Netherlands, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He is a career diplomat who belongs to the 15th batch (1995) of the Bangladesh Civil Service (Foreign Affairs).
Hamidullah served in various capacities in the Bangladesh Mission in New Delhi and the Bangladesh Permanent Mission in New York in the past.
He also served as director at the Saarc Secretariat in Kathmandu.
At the headquarters, he worked as secretary (West) and in various capacities inter alia on multilateral economic issues, South Asian and European affairs and regional cooperation.
