New Delhi [India], February 2 (ANI): Nagma Mohamed Mallick, from the IFS batch of 1991, presently Ambassador of India to Japan, has been concurrently accredited as the following Ambassador of India to the Republic of Marshall Islands, with residence in Tokyo.
She is anticipated to take up the task shortly.
India was one of many first nations to ascertain diplomatic relations with the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) in April 1995.
India and RMI share heat bilateral relations encompassing a variety of areas together with blue economic system, local weather change, catastrophe preparedness, well being, training, and renewable vitality.
RMI had criticized India’s nuclear assessments in 1998, however this was largely pushed by their very own disagreeable reminiscence of Bikini Atoll the place the US carried out 67 nuclear assessments in Nineteen Fifties (even immediately, inhabitants of Bikini Atoll endure from varied sorts of cancers and the soil is so closely polluted that no type of agriculture is feasible).
In April 2014, RMI introduced a lawsuit within the worldwide Court of Justice in opposition to the 9 nuclear-armed nations, together with India.
However, there has not been any try to boost this problem at bilateral stage with India. India’s relations with the RMI are lined from Japan with the Indian Ambassador to Japan being concurrently accredited to the RMI.
Hororary Consul General of India in RMI Ramona Levy Strauss was appointed on May 11, 2021.
Former President of RMI Kesai Note visited India over a decade in the past, as a member of an inter-parliamentary delegation (in his then capability because the Speaker of the Parliament). RMI’s Minister for Public Works Hiroshi Yamamura, accompanied by Jemi Nashion, CEO, Tobolar Copra Processing Authority of RMI, visited Kochi from 3-5 February 2015 for the Asia Pacific Coconut Community Session/Ministerial Meeting.
Former RMI Ambassador Tom D Kijiner (residence in Tokyo) offered his credentials to President Shri Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi on March 18, 2015. (ANI)