New Delhi, Sept. 15 -- Suneet Mehta, presently High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Fiji, has been concurrently accredited as the next High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Kiribati, with residence in Suva, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a release on Monday.

He is expected to take up the assignment shortly.

Mehta is an Indian Foreign Service officer of the 2007 batch.

The High Commission of India in Suva noted that Kiribati has been under its concurrent accreditation since October 2011, after the responsibility was shifted from the High Commission in Wellington, which had been concurrently accredited to Kiribati since September 1992.

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