{"id":37062,"date":"2021-06-29T17:31:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T00:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37062"},"modified":"2021-06-29T17:31:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T00:31:58","slug":"appointment-of-ambassador-atul-keshap-as-charge-daffaires-at-embassy-new-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37062","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of Ambassador Atul Keshap as Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires at Embassy New Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>06\/29\/2021 08:19 AM EDT<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador\u00a0Atul\u00a0Keshap, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service,\u00a0will be departing for New Delhi to serve as Charg\u00e9\u00a0d\u2019Affaires, ad interim, following the\u00a0retirement\u00a0of Ambassador Daniel Smith.\u00a0\u00a0Ambassador\u00a0Keshap\u00a0will bring\u00a0a wealth of experience\u00a0to the role, having served previously at U.S. Embassy New Delhi\u00a0and\u00a0as Deputy Assistant Secretary\u00a0of State\u00a0for South Asia.\u00a0\u00a0He\u00a0most recently\u00a0served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs and as the U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka\u00a0and Maldives.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador\u00a0Keshap\u2019s\u00a0<wbr><\/wbr>appointment\u00a0will reinforce\u00a0the\u00a0close U.S.\u00a0partnership with the\u00a0Government\u00a0and people\u00a0of India,\u00a0demonstrated by\u00a0our\u00a0collaboration to\u00a0overcome global challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-202050598011784221mail_footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>06\/29\/2021 08:19 AM 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-37062","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\/37062","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=37062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37063,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37062\/revisions\/37063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}