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Manbir Singh - Sikhs The Supreme

An extremely soft spoken and career diplomats S. Manbir Singh joined the Indian Foreign Services in 1976. His first destination was Tehran in 1978 as Second Secretary (Press and Information) and subsequently as Head of Chancery. During his tenure, he witnessed revolution in Iran, in 1979, which made it an Islamic Republic. After four years tenure in Iran he proceeded to Toronto as Deputy Consul - General. After spending three years in Toronto, he returned to New Delhi as OSD (PR) in the External Publicity Division. In 1989, he moved to Moscow as Commercial and Economic Counsellor in the Indian Embassy and saw dramatic disintegration of erstwhile USSR into 15 states in Dec., 1991.

In 1992, he moved to the Permanent Mission of India in Geneva. In 1995, he was posted to the UAB as Minister-inS. Manbir Singh (4th from left) with President of India Mr. K.R. Narayanan The Mighty Sikhs / 232 Charge of Political, Press, Counsellor and labour wings when he had direct involvement with the repatriation of 60,000 Indians during an amnesty granted by the UAE government.

In 1999, he again returned to head quarters in New Delhi and got the key post of protocol, in the MEA, when he saw the visit of a record of 66 foreign dignitaries in one year - 2001. During his tenure as chief of protocol, he interacted with a host of world leaders like Bill Clinton, Vladimir Putin, Tony Blair and Gen. Parvez Musharraf. In June 2002, he was posted as Ambassador in Hungary. After completing his tenure as ambassador in Iran, he was designated as country's ambassador in Holland in January, 2009.

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