Raminder Jassal

Raminder Singh Jassal was an Indian diplomat who served as India's Ambassador to Israel, the United States, and Turkey.

In 1995 he served briefly as Director (West Africa, North Africa) in the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi and later as Joint Secretary (Central Asia) during 1996–1997, and later Joint Secretary (Planning & Coordination) in the Ministry of Defence where he served between 1997 and 1999.

In that capacity he also handled media arrangements for all official foreign visits of the Prime Minister of India and all incoming state and official visits including those of President Clinton to India in March 2000 and Prime Minister Vajpayee to Washington D.C. in September, 2000.

[vague][3] As Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge d'affaires in Washington, D.C., Jassal was one of the lead negotiators of the civil nuclear deal between the United States[4] and India.

On 11 March 2011, while undergoing treatment in a Turkish hospital in Ankara, he died of complications from a round of chemotherapy.