By IANS
New Delhi : Shiv Shankar Mukherjee, the present ambassador to Nepal, was Monday named as the next envoy to Britain.
Mukherjee, a 1971 batch IPS officer, will succeed Kamalesh Sharma, who was elected Secretary General of the Commonwealth during the recent Commonwealth Heads of Government Meet (CHOGM) at Kampala in Uganda in November last year.
Mukherjee is expected to take up the assignment shortly, an official statement said here.
Kamalesh Sharma is scheduled to take over as head of the 53-nation grouping in April.
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