Indian Embassy in Russia introduces new diplomatic practice to bid farewell to officer in HQs

NEW DELHI: The Indian Embassy in Russia, managing one of Delhi’s critical and decades old partnership, in a unique diplomatic approach, on Thursday bid farewell to the officer In Headquarters handling Delhi’s ties with Moscow and other Eurasian states.

Indian Ambassador to Moscow DB Venkatesh Varma hosted farewell for Manish Prabhat, JS (Eurasia) in headquarters through video conferencing.

“Bidding farewell;Ambassador and officers of @IndEmbMoscow bid farewell through DVC to Shri @manishprabhat06 ,JS(ERS) who is proceeding to Uzbekistan as Ambassador.Arrangements were made for presenting him a bouquet of flowers as a mark of our appreciation.We wish him all the best,” Indian Embassy in Moscow tweeted.


This was the first time that an Indian Embassy bid farewell for an officer in headquarters and introduced a new diplomatic practice.

Prabhat, 1996 IFS, has been appointed as India’s next envoy to Uzbekistan.