Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra
Maharajakrishna Rasgotra ( born September 11, 1924) is a former Indian ambassador.
Life
He studied in 1946 at Government College University in Lahore with the degree Master of English Literature at Wadham College and Oxford.
Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra was at times a devotee of Sathya Sai Baba. Until 1949 he was employed in the teaching profession of the Punjab, and then joined the Indian Foreign Service ( Foreign Service of India). He was in the diplomatic missions in Paris, Washington, DC and Kathmandu busy.
From 1958 to 1962 he represented the Government of India in UN bodies such as the UN Trusteeship Council and the Special Committee on Decolonization ( Entkolonialisierungskomitee ). He was a member of the Indian delegation at several meetings of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Rasgotra dedicated to issues of international security, development cooperation, disarmament and nuclear arms control. From August 1962 to September 1967 he was employed at the Foreign Ministry in New Delhi.
From 1967 to 1969 he was ambassador in Rabat and was accredited at the same time with the government in Tunis. From 1969 to 1970 he was deputy to Ali Yavar Jung and 1970-1972 by Lakshmi Kant Jha as ambassador in Washington, DC From 1972 to 1973 he was High Commissioner ( Commonwealth ) in London. December 8, 1973 to October 17, 1976, he was Ambassador in Kathmandu. From 1977 to 1979 he was ambassador in The Hague. From 1979 to 1982 he was ambassador in Paris, as well as representatives of the Government of India to UNESCO. From 1 May 1982 to 31 January 1985, he was State Secretary in the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In this time fell in March 1983, the seventh summit of the Non-Aligned Movement States in New Delhi and in October 1983 a conference of heads of state of the Commonwealth of Nations. He was engaged in the preparation of the Six Nations Appeals for Nuclear Disarmament in 1984 and in January 1985 with the Six Nations summit in New Delhi.
After the disaster at Bhopal Warren Anderson looked CEO of Union Carbide across the U.S. charge d'affaires in New Delhi, to Gordon Lee Streeb ( born December 24, 1935 in Windsor ( Colorado)) at Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra safe passage for a visit from Bhopal. In Bhopal Warren Anderson was placed under house arrest. Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra interspersed that Warren Anderson hours after landing in Bhopal on December 7, 1984 with the plane of the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Arjun Singh with a stopover in New Delhi was able to leave the country. So Warren Anderson was not held responsible and seven people from the Indian management of UCAR were covered with nano ( 10-9) penalties.