{"id":34682,"date":"2021-04-30T16:15:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T23:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34682"},"modified":"2021-04-30T16:15:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T23:15:53","slug":"appointment-of-ambassador-daniel-smith-as-charge-daffaires-at-embassy-new-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34682","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of Ambassador Daniel Smith as Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires at Embassy New Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>04\/30\/2021 06:14 PM EDT<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Daniel Smith, the Director of the Foreign Service Institute who\u00a0recently served as acting\u00a0Secretary of State\u00a0and\u00a0Acting Deputy Secretary of State,\u00a0will be departing for New Delhi to serve as Charg\u00e9\u00a0d\u2019Affaires,\u00a0ad interim.\u00a0Ambassador Smith\u00a0carries the highest Foreign Service rank of Career Ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Smith\u2019s\u00a0appointment underscores the United States\u2019 strong commitment to our partnership with the Government of India and the Indian people.\u00a0 He\u00a0will\u00a0spearhead\u00a0close\u00a0<wbr><\/wbr>cooperation with India\u00a0to\u00a0ensure that\u00a0our countries\u00a0continue\u00a0to advance our\u00a0shared\u00a0priorities, including overcoming the\u00a0global\u00a0pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The United States stands in solidarity with India, and\u00a0Ambassador Smith is\u00a0committed to working\u00a0together with India\u00a0in partnership.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04\/30\/2021 06:14 PM EDT Office of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34683,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34682\/revisions\/34683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}