‘Committed to work together’, says Canada’s Justin Trudeau after meeting PM Narendra Modi
The diplomatic ties between India and Canada strained last year after Ottawa alleged that New Delhi may have been involved in the murder of a Sikh separatist.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday said that his government was “committed to working together” with India to deal with some “very important issues”, PTI reported.
Trudeau’s remarks came after he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit in Italy.
“I’m not going to get into the details of this important, sensitive issue that we need to follow up, but this was a commitment to work together, in the coming times, to deal with some very important issues,” PTI quoted Trudeau as having told reporters at a press conference.
This was the first meeting between the two leaders since the diplomatic ties between New Delhi and Ottawa strained in September. The Canadian prime minister had told his country’s parliament that intelligence agencies were actively pursuing “credible allegations” tying agents of the Indian government to the murder of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada.
Nijjar was a supporter of Khalistan, an independent Sikh nation sought by some groups. He was the head of the Khalistan Tiger Force, which is designated a terrorist outfit in India.
New Delhi had rejected Canada’s allegations as “absurd and motivated” and said that they were an attempt by Ottawa to divert attention from the fact that it was providing shelter to...
