Nirupama Rao bids farewell to diplomatic career

November 06, 2013 12:28 am | Updated November 16, 2021 08:03 pm IST - WASHINGTON:

New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao during the international conference on Fisheries Issues in New Delhi on Monday. PTI Photo by Aman Sharma (PTI7_18_2011_000201A)

New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao during the international conference on Fisheries Issues in New Delhi on Monday. PTI Photo by Aman Sharma (PTI7_18_2011_000201A)

The Indian envoy to the U.S., Nirupama Rao, bid farewell to her career of diplomacy, as members of the American diplomatic corps and her Chinese and Brazilian counterparts attended a reception hosted by the State Department here on Monday.

“It is difficult to imagine that so much time has passed,” she told the audience at the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the State Department on the last day of her assignment. Ms. Rao, 62, served as Foreign Secretary, spokesperson of the External Affairs Ministry and envoy to China and Sri Lanka in four decades as a diplomat.

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