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On Tuesday the new Estonian ambassador to India, Viljar Lubi, handed over his credentials to President of India Pranab Mukherjee.
Estonia's new ambassador to India hands over credentials
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Lubi is the first Estonian ambassador to reside in India, a press officer for the Foreign Ministry told BNS.
During the conversation following the ceremony of handing over credentials, Lubi and the Indian head of state expressed the pleasure over the fact that the relations between Estonia and India were arriving at a new level in their development. "Estonia will soon open an embassy in New Delhi and the first ambassador residing in India has started working," Lubi said. "We wish to have closer political cooperation with India, to develop entrepreneurship and cultural contacts and to more effectively deal with consular issues and the issue of visas," he added.
Lubi said that the importance of India as one of the most significant economic forces had increased from year to year, but there was enough room for the development bilateral economic relations. "There is an outlook in the information technology sphere, as well as in bio and environmental economy and in the timber industry and logistics spheres," the ambassador added.
Mukherjee said that the Estonian-Indian relations went back far into the past when Sanskrit was taught in Estonia as early as in the middle of the 18th century.
The ambassador passed to the Indian President, Pranab Mukherjee the welcome of the Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and an invitation to come on a visit to Estonia.
Viljar Lubi works in the foreign service since 1999. He has served in the press and information department, in the foreign economy and development cooperation department, at the Estonian Embassy in London, as director of the European Union general affairs department and as advisor at the Estonian ambassador to Washington. Starting from 2011 until going to carry out his duties as the Estonian Ambassador to India Viljar Lubi worked at the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Communications and as head of EU and international cooperation department.