Surprising announcement of US President Donald Trump to send his close assistant, 38-year-old Sergio Gora, because the ambassador in India has led to some relief for those who hope that the nominations will suspend deterioration in India-USA over trade and other questions.
However, Mr. Trump’s extra fees as a special envoy to South and Central Asian affairs in Nový Delhi have increased the red flag, as they said that it could indicate the ongoing US desire to convey between India and Pakistan.
The Ministry of External Affairs did not comment on Mr. Gor’s nomination, because the official paperwork for the “agreement” will not follow only after the US Senate confirms it. Unlike his predecessor Eric Garcetti, who in Nový Delhi took the lead for two years to biden administration for delayed congress, it is expected that the process of confirmation of Mr. Gor will be smoother and completed within a few months, not if the 90 days.
Direct communication with Trump
“The fact that it exists is nominated and that it is someone like Sergio Gor is a positive news,” said Mukesh AGHI, president and general director of the forum of the Strategic Partnership in India, which represents industrial interests in both countries. It is important that the US Ambassador can speak directly to the US President, rather than through the US Foreign Ministry, which can delay communication, said.
“I would also think that the timing of the announcement gives the hope that there is some negotiation that can be postponed secondary sanctions until Mr. Gor is introduced,” said Mr. Aghi Hindu with reference to the date of August 27, which is to be deposited in India for buying Russian oil, except 25% of the receptor tariffs.
However, former Foreign Minister Nirupama Menon Rao, who was also in the US in the US in the US in 2011 to 2013, stressed that Mr. Gor has no diplomatic or regional experience. “Based on available information, Trump is a long -term assistant, without an apparent background in India or South Asia. His main qualifications seem to be a loyalty to Trump,” she said.
American author Meenakshi Ahamed said that the lack of experience was in sharp contrast to previous ambassadors sent by democratic and Republican presidents, including renowned academics such as John Kenneth Galbraith and Daniel Patrick Moynihan or previous ambassador Eric Garcetti. “Mr. Gor has a direct line to the president who relies on his inner circle and often changed his mind about the problems. That could make him the best hope at the moment,” she said.
Relinking india to Pakistan
Regardless of its proximity, there is a greater concern in Nový Delhi above the nomination of Mr. Gor over his appointment by a special envoy in the region. In addition to the spiral tension over American tariffs and pejorative statements by Trump’s administration, India and the US contradict Mr. Trump’s claim that after a four -day conflict between India and Pakistan in May and his close engagement with General Pakistan ASIM ASIM Munir.
According to Mrs. Raová, the appointment of a special envoy to the region “risks the re-combination of India to American policy in Pakistan and Afghanistan-some that India has resisted for decades.” Some compared the transition to the plan of former US President Barack Obama to send Richard Holbrooke as his special envoy to the whole region in January 2009. The plan was derailed after the external issues of Pranab Mukherjee, who said the American ambassador David Mulford that this step. India) ”, according to Wikileaks, which was published by Wikileaks. As a result, Mr. Holbrook was appointed only an ambassador of AF-Pak.
Former Foreign Minister Kanwal Sibal said to give Mr. Gor a similar place would be “problematic” because it would blur the line on the ties between India and its neighbors, and also to move the focus from American India-Pacific policy.
“The responsibility of the US Ambassador in a huge country, such as India, with many American consulates and a huge amount of bilateral work, is that this kind of” concurrent accreditation “is not normal,” he said on social media.
From Trump’s inner circle
In his social media announcement, Mr. Trump said he was nominated by Mr. Gor, who worked on both of his presidential campaigns and now runs the White House staff division, which will decide on rent for key administrative positions and who was a “great friend” for him. “For the most populous region in the world, it is important that I have someone I can fully trust to give my agenda and help us to make America great again (Maga),” he said.
Mr. Gor is a naturalized American citizen who was born in Tashkent under the Soviet Union in 1986 as Sergei Gorokhovsky and whose parents moved to Malta and then to the US at the age of 90. He has always been politically conservative and was president of the right -wing American Foundation at the George Washington University and in 2008 he gave a speech that his liberal colleagues described as “hippies and madness”.
After working on the team of Republican Senator Randa Paul, Mr. Gor moved in 2020 to become the chief of Staff in the Financial Committee for Trump victory. After Mr. Trump lost the elections by 2020, Mr. Gor founded a publishing company with Donald Trump Jr. entitled Winning Teams Publishing and continued to raise funds for another Trump campaign in 2024.
Published – August 23 2025 21:54
