New Delhi: Sandeep Arya, Additional Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, has been appointed as India's next ambassador to Vietnam.

Arya, a 1994 batch Indian Foreign Service officer, is expected to take up the assignment shortly.

"Shri Sandeep Arya (IFS: 1994), presently Additional Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam," a MEA release said.

Arya will replace Pranay Kumar Verma, who has been appointed India's next High Commissioner to Bangladesh.