He will spearhead close cooperation with India: State Department
Shortly on the heels of its announcement that more than $100 million in assistance was being directed to India, the Biden administration announced the appointment of Daniel Smith, the Director of the Foreign Service Institute, as the new interim Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi.
Mr. Biden has not yet appointed an Ambassador to India.
Mr. Smith was Acting Secretary of State for a few days after the Trump administration’s Mike Pompeo demitted office and before Antony Blinken was sworn in Secretary of State.
“Ambassador Smith carries the highest Foreign Service rank of Career Ambassador,” a State Department statement said.
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The United States is committed to use every resource at its disposal to support India s frontline healthcare workers in their battle against COVID-19, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said here.
The Department of Defence on Wednesday airlifted the first shipment of American aid to India from a military base in California. The flight is scheduled to land in India on Thursday.
Austin thanked various wings of his armed services for hustling to prepare the critical medical supplies.
Thanks to @US TRANSCOM, @AirMobilityCmd, @Travis60AMW & @DLAmil for hustling to prepare critical @USAID medical sup… https://t.co/yKms8k4glP Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III (@SecDef) 1619654716000
40 US Companies Create Global Task Force To Help India Fight Covid 40 US Companies Create Global Task Force To Help India Fight Covid The first-of-its-kind country-specific global task force to address a public health crisis in another country was addressed by US Secretary of State Tony Blinken.
India has been witnessing an unprecedented surge in coronavirus cases (File)
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In a show of solidarity, CEOs of some 40 top American companies have come together to create a global task force to mobilise resources to help India fight the battle against COVID-19.
A collective initiative of the US-India Business Council of the US Chambers of Commerce, and the US-India Strategic and Partnership Forum and Business Roundtable, the task force during its meeting here on Monday committed to get 20,000 oxygen concentrators to India in the next few weeks, Deloitte CEO Puneet Renjen told PTI.