Newly appointed Indian Ambassador to USA Nirupama Rao Presents Credentials on 9 September 2011

President Obama met India’s new envoy to the United States, Nirupama Rao, a veteran diplomat who has several firsts to her credit.

Rao presented her credentials to the president Sept. 9 at a brief ceremony at the Oval Office. Obama wished her success in her new assignment in the capital where she first came as an embassy staffer in the 1990s.

Rao, in her remarks, conveyed greetings from the Indian president and the prime minister to Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama,.

India, she said, was greatly encouraged by the president’s strong personal commitment to take the strategic partnership forward.

Obama has in the past described the United States-India strategic partnership as a defining and indispensible collaboration for the 21st century.

He said the two countries enjoy a natural friendship and that the India-U.S. partnership has proven to be dynamic and broad and serves to advance peace and prosperity in Asia and the world.

Rao was the first woman to be made the spokesperson for the government of India, and the second woman, after Chokila Iyer, to serve as India’s foreign secretary (from 2009-11), immediately prior to her appointment in Washington, D.C.
In 2006, she became the first woman to be made ambassador to China.

She has also been ambassador to Peru, high commissioner to Sri Lanka, deputy chief of mission in Moscow and minister of press affairs in Washington in the 1990s.

She is the author of a book of poetry entitled “Rain Rising” that has also been translated into Russian and Chinese.

www.newsindia-times.com/newsindiatimes/20110913/496209702...

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