MEA Spokesperson Vikas Swarup Named High Commissioner to Canada

Swarup addressed his weekly press briefing on Thursday, saying it was the last time he was doing it.

Vikas Swarup, the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, was on Thursday appointed lndia's envoy to Canada.

Swarup, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of the 1986 batch, is presently Additional Secretary. He is expected to take up his new assignment shortly, an official statement said.