New Delhi, Nov 3 (PTI) Senior diplomat Partha Satpathy has been appointed as India's Ambassador to Hungary, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Wednesday.

Satpathy, a 1990 batch officer of the Indian Foreign Service, is presently Ambassador of India to Ukraine.

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He is expected to take up the assignment shortly, the MEA said.

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