US Ambassador to India announces retirement plan

Powell says she will retire before the end of May.


Web Desk March 31, 2014
Powell has also served as US ambassador to Pakistan. PHOTO: AFP/FILE

NEW DELHI: US Ambassador to India Nancy J Powell announced in a US Mission Town Hall meeting on Monday that she had submitted her resignation to president Obama.

Powell said she has been planning for her retirement for some time and she would retire before the end of May, a statement issued on the US Embassy India website read.

She has served as US ambassador to Pakistan, Uganda, Ghana, Nepal and India as well as service in Canada, Togo, Bangladesh, and Washington, where she was most recently Director General of the Foreign Service.

Powell expressed her appreciation for the professionalism and dedication of the US Mission to India team who have worked to expand the parameters of the US-India bilateral relationship.

COMMENTS (4)

Parvez | 10 years ago | Reply Market forces trump political principles.
unbelievable | 10 years ago | Reply @indian:
this is modi power . modi wave is even reaching into america. now they removed anti modi diplomat.
Yep .. be proud .. you now have someone who can compete with Netanyahu - both associated with massacring innocents.
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