Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations
Appearance
Ambassador of India to the United Nations of India | |
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Style | His/Her Excellency [1] |
Appointer | President of India |
Formation | 1945 |
Website | www.pminewyork.org |
The Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations is India's foremost diplomatic representative to the United Nations (UN). The permanent Representative (UN ambassador)[2] is the head of the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations in New York City.
The current Permanent Representative of India to UN is T. S. Tirumurti , who was appointed in April 2020.[3][4]
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List
This is a list of Indian Permanent Representative to the United Nations.[5][6]
Name | Portrait | Entered office | Left office | Notes |
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Samarendranath Sen | September 1946 | March 1947 | India's Liaison Officer to the newly established UN | |
Dr. Padmanabha P. Pillai | July 1947 | 1948 | ||
Sir Benegal N. Rau | ![]() |
March 1948 | 1952 | Also Representative to the UN Security Council (1950 to 1952) |
Rajeshwar Dayal | 1952 | August 1954 | ||
Arthur S. Lall | September 1954 | December 1959 | ||
Chandra Shekhar Jha | January 1959 | July 1962 | ||
B. N. Chakrvarthy | August 1962 | July 1965 | ||
G. Parthasarathy | August 1965 | December 1968 | ||
Samar Sen | January 1969 | July 1974 | ||
Rikhi Jaipal | July 1974 | May 1979 | ||
Brajesh C. Mishra | ![]() |
June 1979 | March 1981 | |
Natarajan Krishnan | April 1981 | September 1986 | ||
C.R. Gharekhan | October 1986 | December 1992 | ||
Mohammad Hamid Ansari | ![]() |
January 1993 | January 1995 | Also served as Vice President of India from 2007 to 2017 |
Prakash Shah | February 1995 | July 1997 | ||
Kamalesh Sharma | ![]() |
August 1997 | May 2002 | |
V. K. Nambiar | May 2002 | May 2004 | ||
Nirupam Sen | September 2004 | March 2009 | ||
Hardeep Singh Puri | ![]() |
May 2009 | February 2013 | |
Asoke Kumar Mukerji | April 2013 | December 2015 | ||
Syed Akbaruddin | ![]() |
January 2016 | May 2020 | |
T. S. Tirumurti | ![]() |
May 2020 | Present |
See also
- India and the United Nations
- List of current Permanent Representatives to the United Nations
- Foreign relations of India
- Diplomatic missions of India
References
- ^ "About us". Retrieved 2013-08-21.
- ^ "History of Ambassadors", United States Mission to the United Nations, March 2011, webpage: USUN-a Archived 2013-04-29 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "About us". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2017-11-22.
- ^ "Rajiv Kumar Chander appointed as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Offices in Geneva". www.mea.gov.in/. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ^ "Permanent Representatives of India to the United Nations". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
- ^ Mukerji, Asoke (2015). India and The United Nations. New York: Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations. pp. 368–374.