Vinod Kumar Grover
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Vinod Kumar Grover is a former Secretary of the Ministry of External Affairs of India.[1]
Career
[edit]Grover entered the Foreign Service in 1961 and retired in 1996.[2]
In 1982, as High Commissioner to Kenya, Grover signed an India-Kenya credit pact on behalf of the Indian government.[3] From August 1984 until February 1989 he was Indian ambassador to Turkey.[4]
In 1991, while serving as Indian ambassador to the Netherlands, Grover was one of the "22 leading figures from 18 countries" – "individuals with experience in international arbitration, reputations for creativity in problem solving, and general influence in the international legal community" – to sit on the Working Group of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.[5]
In 2005, Grover was one of four special envoys appointed by the Indian government in its bid to obtain a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.[6] In 2006 he was appointed to the National Security Advisory Board.[7]
Publications
[edit]- India - The Need for a Post Cold War Foreign Policy and the Importance of the EU, India Quarterly, 57:1, (2001), 171-176
- Appraisal of Indo-Pak Relations, India Quarterly, 57:2, (2001), 11-16
- The Strategic Triangle, India Quarterly, 58:1 (2002), 21-26
References
[edit]- ^ "Leading News Resource of Pakistan". Daily Times. 1 December 2005. Archived from the original on 13 July 2006. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
- ^ "Amb. V.K. Grover". Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
- ^ "Kenya and India sign credit pact", Daily Nation, December 27, 1982.
- ^ http://www.indembassy.org.tr/cgi.php?id=AmbTurkey
- ^ J. L. Bleich, "A New Direction for the PCA: The Work of the Expert Group", in The Flame Rekindled: New Hopes for International Arbitration, edited by A. Sam Muller and Wim Mijs (Dordrecht, Boston and London, 1994), p. 19.
- ^ T.R. Ramachandran, Diplomatic blitzkrieg for UN seat, The Tribune, April 22, 2005.
- ^ National Security Advisory Board reconstituted, The Hindu, August 13, 2006.