NEW DELHI: In a first, the new envoys of seven countries presented their credentials to President Ramnath Kovind via video conference on Thursday.
They were from North Korea, Senegal, Trinidad and Tobago, Mauritius, Australia, Côte d’Ivoire and Rwanda. The move comes amid the current novel coronavirus pandemic that has infected more than five million people worldwide since it first emerged in China in December.
Pictures released by Rashtrapati Bhavan, the official residence of the Indian President, showed Kovind seated in front of a large television screen and accepting the credentials of the incoming ambassadors and high commissioners.