Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra

Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra, 1973

Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra (M K Rasgotra) is an Indian diplomat and former Indian Foreign Secretary and a recipient of Padma Bhushan award.

He also served as India's high commissioner to England, and Indian Ambassador to Morocco, Tunisia, the Netherlands, Nepal, France and the UNESCO. ^[1]

He was the foreign secretary during the Bhopal gas disaster. It is claimed by the then Deputy Chief of Mission of the US embassy in New Delhi in 1984, in an interview with a news channel, that communications between the Government of India and himself relating to the release of Warren Anderson (of Union Carbide) to return to the US went through the foreign secretary. ^[2] In a subsequent interview with Karan Thapar, Mr Rasgotra held that releasing Warren Anderson was the right thing to do, since he had been earlier promised safe passage.^[3]

References

1. ^ Information from www.outlookindia.com
2. ^ Interview with NDTV
3. ^ "Interview with M.K. Rasgotra", The Hindu, 18 June 2010, archived from the original on 2010-06-18, http://www.webcitation.org/5qaIF24ut 

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