Prabhakar Menon Explained

Prabhakar Menon is a retired Indian diplomat.

Business career

From 1968 to 1973, he was employed in Hong Kong.

From 1974 to 1975 he was Business Officer in Hanoi.

From 1975 to 1980 he was Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (India).

From 1980 to 1982, he was Director (Foreign Secretary’s Office).

Diplomatic service

In 1981 the government of Indira Gandhi asked for another assignment for George Brevard Griffin (1916–2010), counsellor at the US mission in New Delhi, who was already in Calcutta during the Bangladesh Liberation War.^[1] In 1981 Prabhakar Menon was appointed an officer at the Indian mission to Washington D. C. but the government of Ronald Reagan did not accept him.^[2]

From 1982 to 1985 he was ambassador in East Berlin.^[3]

Prabhakar Menon was ambassador to Dakar (Senegal) from 1986 to 1989.^[4]

In 1989 he was the ambassador and deputy permanent representative of India to the United Nations.^[5]

From 1992 to 1996, Ambassador Prabhakar Menon was advisor on foreign affairs to Prime Minister Shri P. V. Narasimha Rao, while posted as Joint Secretary (Prime Minister’s Office).^[5]

Until 1996 he was liaison secretary to P. V. Narasimha Rao.^{[6] [7]}

From 1996 to 1999 he was ambassador in The Hague, permanent representative to the OPCW and chairman of this body.^[8]

From 2001 to 2003 he was ambassador in Dublin (Ireland).^[9]

Notes and References

1. P. V. Narasimha Rao's statement in Lok Sabha 08 September 1981: Mr. Griffin was till recently the Deputy Chief of Mission in the US Embassy in Kabul. After a careful evaluation of Mr. Griffin's activities during his earlier posting in India, the Government of India requested the United States to reassign him to another post. Government's intention was to avoid the likelihood of friction being...
2. Web site: Khobragade faceoff - Throwback to a 1981 Indo-US diplomatic spat ummid.com . ummid.com . 19 September 2024 . 2014-01-10.
3. NEW AMBASSADORS NAMED — New Delhi, l Aug— Miss Arundhati Ghose, now ambassador to the Republic of Korea, has been appointed ambassador to the German Democratic Republic, succeeding Mr T. Prabhakar Menon.
4. Web site: List of ambassadors of India to Senegal . embassies.info . 19 September 2024 . 24 August 2024.
5. Web site: PDF Reminiscences of a 'Fly on the Wall' . associationdiplomats.org . 21 September 2024.
6. Prabhakar Menon, joint secretary in the Prime Minister's office (PMO), has been appointed ambassador to Netherlands, an official release said in New Delhi on April 11.
7. Web site: 92-96 Prabhakar Menon served as advisor on foreign affairs to Prime Minister Shri P. V. Narasimha Rao, while he was posted as Joint Secretary (Prime Minister's Office) from 1992 to 1996. . www.associationdiplomats.org .
8. Web site: The End of Chemical Weapons . Stanley Center for Peace and Security . 19 September 2024 . en . 2 September 1997.
9. Book: Rajan . K. V. . The Ambassador's Club . Harper Collins . 19 September 2024 . en . 18 May 2012. 978-93-5029-472-7 .