Gopal Baglay appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to Australia

New Delhi: Senior IFS officers Gopal Baglay has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to Australia.

A 1992-batch officer of Indian Foreign Service, Baglay is presently serving as High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka.

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He is expected to take up the new assignment shortly.

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Baglay has held many key positions including spokesperson of the MEA and Deputy High Commissioner of India to Pakistan.

He had also handled the sensitive PAI (Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran) division in the MEA.

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