New Delhi: Manoj Kumar Mohapatra has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Guatemala. He is expected to take up the assignment shortly, the Ministry of External Affairs said. The IFS officer of the 2000 batch earlier served as Minister (Commerce), Embassy of India, Washington and Deputy Consul General of Consulate General Of India, New York. According to a statement by the Ministry of External Affairs, Mohapatra, a 2000-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, is currently serving as a minister in the Indian Embassy in Washington.