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Before assuming the office of the Prime Minister of
India, Shri Gujral was the Minister of External Affairs
from June 1, 1996 and held additional charge of the
Ministry of Water Resources from June 28, 1996. He was
the Minister of External Affairs earlier during 1989-1990.
He was Ambassador of India to U.S.S.R. (Cabinet Rank)
from 1976-1980 and held the following Ministerial positions
from 1967-1976:
Minister of Communications & Parliamentary Affairs;
Minister of Information & Broadcasting and Communications;
Minister of Works & Housing;
Minister of Information & Broadcasting;
Minister of Planning.
Parliamentary positions held:
Leader of the House, Rajya Sabha from June 1996; Chairman
of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce & Textiles,
1993 to April 1996; Member of Parliamentary Standing
Committee for External Affairs till April 1996; Member
of Parliament 1964 to 1976, 1989 to 1991; re-elected
to Rajya Sabha in 1992 from Bihar; Member, Committee
on Petitions, Public Accounts Committee, Committee on
Rules, Rajya Sabha; Committee on Subordinate Legislation,
Rajya Sabha; General Purposes Committee, Rajya Sabha;
Standing Committee on External Affairs.
Other important offices held:
Chairman, Indian Council of South Asian Co-operation;
Member of the Capital Plan Monitoring Committee; former
President of the Institute of Defence Studies & Analysis
(IDSA); Chairman of the official Committee for the Promotion
of Urdu (Gujral Committee); Vice-President of the New
Delhi Municipal council 1959-64; President Lahore Students
Union; General Secretary of the Punjab Students Federation;
Convenor and Spokesman of United Front of the Opposition
Parties Conclave at Calcutta, Srinagar and Delhi.
International delegations:
Leader of the Indian Delegation to United Nations General
Assembly 1996; Leader of the Indian Delegation to
UN Session of Human Rights, Geneva 1995; Leader of the
Indian Delegation to the UN General Assembly 1990; Leader
of the Indian Delegation to the UN Special Session of
Economic Development 1990; Member, Indian Delegation
to UNO 1995 and 1994; Leader of the Indian Delegation
to UNESCO Conference on Education and Environment, 1977;
Alternate Leader of the Indian Delegation to the UNESCO
Session in 1970, 1972 and 1974; Chairman, UNESCO Seminar
on Man and New Communication Systems, Paris 1973; Delegate
-Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference-Bucharest 1995;
Delegate Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference,
Canada 19194; Delegate Inter-Parliamentary Union Meeting
Canberra (Australia) 1967; Alternate Leader of Indian
Delegation to the UN Session on Environment, Stockholm
1974; Special Envoy of India to Gabon, Cameroon, Congo,
Chad and Republic of Central Africa 1975; Special Envoy
of India to the inaugural of the Republic of Malawi
1966; Special Envoy to Bulgaria 1961; Union Minister
in attendance to President of India during State Visits
to Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Egypt and Sudan; Chairman Indian
Council of South Asian Co-operation; Co-Chairman Asian
Rotary Conference 1961.
Social organisations with which he was associated:
President, Nari Niketan Trust & A.N. Gujral Memorial
School, Jalandhar (Punjab); President, Indo-Pak Friendship
Society; Founder President of Delhi Art Theatre; Vice-President
of Lok Kalyan Samiti; President of Rotary Club of Delhi
1960; Co-Chairman of the Asian Rotary Conference in
1961.
Special interests:
Shri Gujral has been a writer and commentator on National
and International Affairs, as well as theatre.
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