New US Ambassador Kenneth Juster, along with the envoys of Sweden and Nigeria, presented their credentials to President Ram Nath Kovind here on Thursday.
According to an official statement, besides Juster, Ambassador Klas Molin of Sweden and High Commissioner Maj. Gen (Retd.) Chris Sunday Eze of Nigeria presented their credentials at a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Earlier this month, the US Senate unanimously confirmed Juster as the ambassador to New Delhi.
Juster, 62, had an influential role in helping develop policy in international trade, an area that President Donald Trump had made one of the cornerstones of his campaign, as the President's Deputy Assistant for International Economic Affairs and the Deputy Director of the National Economic Council.
He was simultaneously a senior staff member of the National Security Council.
Earlier, as the Under Secretary for Commerce in the George W. Bush administration, Juster played at key role in developing India-US relations, the high point of which was the civilian nuclear cooperation agreement.
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Just prior to leaving those positions in June amid speculation about the ambassadorship to India, he was Trump's representative for the advance work and negotiations for the May summit of the industrialised democracies known as G7 in Italy.
The New Delhi position has been vacant since January when Richard Verma resigned along with most political appointees of President Barack Obama's administration.
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