Pankaj Sharma has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the United Nations Conference on Disarmament, Geneva.
Sharma, an Indian Foreign Services (IFS) officer of 1991 batch is currently serving as a Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
He will be taking up the assignment shortly. Sharma will succeed senior IFS officer Amandeep Singh Gill.
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