Amandeep Singh Gill, who joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1992, has been India s permanent representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.
exciting moment for him when he announced on tuesday that he was going to be doing this role, helping africa s economies recover from covid and he was greeted with support from former cabinet colleagues including the foreign secretary, the housing secretary, and including the culture secretary, and this was not an appointment that came through the uk government, it was an internal un appointment, and there were many in the international community who suddenly questioned matt hancock s expertise for doing this role, his knowledge of africa, and also his past mistakes and how that would lead to a good ambassador for this particular role. matt hancock s friend say that obviously the eu must ve aware of his history and all these other things beforehand but one thing they did not appear to be aware of comes across in matt hancock s statement. he starts by saying, this is after the role has been withdrawn from