Amid the continued India-Canada tensions, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mentioned that his nation isn’t seeking to escalate scenario with India.
“Canada isn’t seeking to escalate scenario with India, will proceed to interact responsibly and contructively with New Delhi,” Trudeau was quoted by Reuters.
The diplomatic tensions started between the 2 nations after Canada accused India being concerned within the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Nijjar was killed on June 18 in Surrey in Canada’s British Columbia.
“Clearly, we’re going via a particularly difficult time with India proper now,” Trudeau was quoted as saying by the Canadian newspaper.
Lately, India had requested Canada to repatriate about 14 diplomats from the nation by inside per week. New Delhi has set an October 10 deadline, mentioned a report by The Monetary Instances citing sources. Whereas chatting with the reporters in Ottawa, Trudeau mentioned that it will be significant for Canada to have diplomats on the bottom in India. Nevertheless he didn’t verify the FT report.
After allegation was raised by Canada, Ottawa expelled an Indian diplomat and as a tit-for-tat transfer, India too had expelled a Canadian diplomat.
In the meantime, Exterior Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar whereas chatting with reporters in US mentioned that Canadians have made some allegations and we have now identified to them that this isn’t Indian authorities’s coverage.
Jaishankar additionally mentioned that the governments of India and Canada should speak to one another and see how they resolve their variations over the difficulty.
