Seasoned diplomat Jitender Pal Singh was on Friday appointed as India’s new ambassador to Israel, a posting seen as important in view of the current situation in the Middle-east.<\/p>\n
Mr Singh, a 2002-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) diplomat, is presently serving as the joint secretary in the crucial Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran (PAI) division of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).<\/p>\n
“He is expected to take up the assignment shortly,” the MEA said in a brief statement.<\/p>\n
As India’s pointperson for Afghanistan, he played an important role in execution of India’s policy approach towards the Taliban set up in that country.<\/p>\n
In November, Mr Singh met the Taliban’s acting defence minister Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob and discussed ways to expand the relations between the two sides.<\/p>\n
The meeting is believed to have paved the way for Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri’s talks with Taliban regime’s acting foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Dubai over two weeks back.<\/p>\n
Mr Singh’s posting to Israel comes amid an upswing in India’s bilateral ties with that country.<\/p>\n
India is Israel’s second-largest trading partner in Asia.<\/p>\n
Though the bilateral trade is dominated mainly by diamonds, petroleum products, and chemicals, recent years have witnessed an increase in trade in areas such as electronic machinery and high-tech products.<\/p>\n
Israel has also emerged as a key supplier of military hardware to India.<\/p>\n
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