The two leaders made the decision “with a view to returning to regular services to citizens and businesses in both countries,” the Canadian PM Carney’s office said in a statement.
India and Canada agreed on Tuesday to reinstate ambassadors to each other’s capitals, months after the bitter diplomatic fallout between New Delhi and Ottawa. The breakthrough came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his Canadian counterpart, Mark Carney, on the sidelines of the Group of Seven (G7) Summit in Canada’s Kananaskis.
The relations between the two countries deteriorated last year after Carney’s predecessor, Justin Trudeau, publicly accused India of being involved in the assassination of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian soil, an allegation India categorically denied. Following this, New Delhi and Ottawa expelled the Indian ambassador.
Now Canada’s new leader, Carney, who took office in March, invited PM Modi to the Canadian Rockies as a guest at the summit of the G7 major economies. The two leaders held a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the summit and agreed that both countries would name new high commissioners, as ambassadors are known between Commonwealth nations.
The two leaders made the decision “with a view to returning to regular services to citizens and businesses in both countries,” the Canadian PM Carney’s office said in a statement.
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