India's High Commissioner to Britain
Kamalesh Sharma, the High Commisioner of India
to Britain,
is favourite to be the next Secretary General of the Commonwealth when New Zealand’s Don McKinnon
finishes his second four-year term in March 2008. Sharma joined the
Indian Foreign Service in 1965. He was Permanent Representative to the
United Nations in Geneva from 1988 to 1990, acting as the UN Council
for Trade and Development’s Spokesman for Developing
Countries in the Uruguay
round of trade negotiations. He later took on
ambassadorial missions in Germany,
Kazakhstan
and Kyrgyzstan....
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