US Ambassador to Sri Lanka presents credentials

ECONOMYNEXT – Atul Keshap, the new US envoy to Sri Lanka presented his credentials to President Maithripala Sirisena on August 21, the US embassy said.

Ambassador Keshap is a career diplomat with the U S Department of State, and has spent much of his career focusing on South Asia, including Sri Lanka. 

He was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs in Washington.

He has word at US Embassies in New Delhi, India; Rabat, Morocco; and Conakry, Guinea. (Colombo/Aug21/2015)