New Delhi, March 25 -- Anshuman Gaur, presently serving as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Hungary.

Gaur is an Indian Foreign Service Officer of the 2001 batch. He is expected to take up the assignment shortly.

In a statement, the MEA stated, "Shri Anshuman Gaur (IFS: 2001), presently Joint Secretary in the Ministry, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Hungary."

"He is expected to take up the assignment shortly," it added.

Relations between India and Hungary have been close and friendly, multifaceted and substantive. They have survived the vicissitudes of political and economic changes, particularly in Hungary and the reo...