Prime Minister Mark Carney, who took over the office in March, expanded the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to join him in the Canadian rock as a guest in the seven (G7) summit group. In a significant step, both agreed on Tuesday to return the ambassadors to the capital cities and turned the page on the bitter spit over the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Both leaders agreed that India and Canada would appoint new high commissioners, because the ambassadors are known among the Commonwealth nations and made a decision “to return to regular services to citizens and businesses in both countries”, according to the Prime Minister.
What was Hareep Singh Nijjar?
Last year, Carney’s predecessor Justin Trudeau publicly accused India of engaging in the assassination of Sikh Separatist Nijjar on Canadian soil and excluded the Indian ambassador, provoking a strong retaliation reaction from India. Nijjar was defended by the independent state of Sikh called Khalistan and was shot in 2023 in front of Gurdwar in British Columbia.
The dispute significantly disrupted diplomatic relations between the two nations, which in 2023 shared $ 9 billion in the store and maintained a strong cultural context through Canadian Great Indian diaspora. Canada was forced to stop personal services on all its diplomatic missions in India, with the exception of the embassy in Nový Delhi.
Modi, Carney on India-Canada Relations
PM Modi said, “The relationship between India and Canada is very important in many ways.” In CARNEY congratulations to lead his liberal party to the election victory, Modi said: “I’m sure that together … India and Canada will work together to make progress in many areas.”
It was a “big honor” to welcome Modi at the G7 summit, Carney mentioned, but made a passing allusion to domestic sensitive spit, referring to “multinational repression”. He said he wanted to work with India on “questions we are trying to deal with together, from energy security … the future of artificial intelligence, to the fight we have against multinational repression and against terrorism”.
“I think today’s meeting was important, but I would describe it as a basic, necessary first step: Exchange of views-Frank, an open exchange of views on the enforcement of law and multinational repression, as two examples of the fact that we will have the necessary basics to rebuild a relationship based on mutual respect, sovereignty and trust.
(With AFP inputs and nor)
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