HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI: India's Ministry of External Affairs has clarified that there was no official plan to recall India’s Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood.
“I read in the newspapers about the change of the ambassador in Nepal. It is news for me. There has been no official decision to this effect,” a ministry source said.
According to a knowledgeable source, the Ministry of External Affairs notifies the host country before it takes a final decision on the appointment of a new ambassador, and in the due process, it moves relevant documents to different departments, but none of these has happened as of now.
Indian ambassadors normally have a three-year term, but this may vary depending upon the seniority of the position as well as that of the incumbent official.
In case of Nepal, Sood's predecessor Shiv Shankar Mukherjee served for more than three years while his predecessor Shyam Saran served in Nepal in capacity of India's ambassador for less than three years. Ambassador Sood has spent two years and eight months in Kathmandu as the Indian envoy, and it won't be an unusual move if he is called back to Delhi, added the source. However, there have been no routine procedures initiated so far.
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