PRESIDENT Draupadi Murmu accepted credentials from the Ambassadors of Ecuador, Somalia, Germany and Suriname at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhawan on Friday. “The President of India, Smt Draupadi Murmu accepted credentials from the Ambassadors of Ecuador, Somalia, Germany and Suriname at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhawan today (August 26, 2022),” the Rashtrapati Bhawan said in a statement.

Those who presented their credentials were: Francisco Teodoro Maldonado Guevara, Ambassador of the Republic of Ecuador, Ahmed Ali Dahir, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Dr Philipp Ackermann, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany and Arunkoemar Hardien, Ambassador of the Republic of Suriname.

On Thursday, a group of 175 IAS officers of the 2020 batch, currently deputed to various Union Ministries and Departments as Assistant Secretaries, called on President Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhawan.