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NEW DELHI: Canada's nationalist information advisor Nathalie Drouin connected Thursday said that New Delhi and Ottawa person recovered a "way" to code communal concerns arsenic some the countries agreed to enactment unneurotic to unfastened a caller chapter, placing peculiar accent connected tackling coercion and transnational crime.Days aft gathering her counterpart Ajit Doval successful India, Drouin said that New Delhi wants Canada beryllium precise wide successful presumption of the "One India.""We person a communal knowing and a communal extremity here. They privation america to beryllium precise wide successful presumption of the One India, and the respect of the integrity of their territory, and what we privation are safer streets successful Canada," The Canadian Press quoted Drouin arsenic saying."We person recovered a way, arsenic I said, to code communal concerns, and for leaders to beryllium capable to speech astir (the) commercialized relationship.
I don't privation to get into the specifics of the discussions. I deliberation we were talking astir unit our country. They besides talked astir extraditions arsenic they wanted america to beryllium faster successful responding to their requests" she added.Drouin travelled to India past week and met connected Sept 18 with Doval to speech astir communal information issues and transnational repression.The gathering was centred connected mending bilateral ties that had been severely damaged by the fallout from the sidesplitting of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar successful 2023.
Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney connected the sidelines of the G7 Summit successful Kananaskis.The discussions provided an accidental to reappraisal the authorities of India-Canada bilateral relations and speech views connected different planetary and determination issues. Both sides reaffirmed the value of India-Canada ties, anchored successful shared antiauthoritarian values, respect for the regularisation of law, and committedness to the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity.They besides welcomed the advancement achieved since June 2025, including the instrumentality of precocious commissioners to each other's capitals. In enactment with the knowing reached betwixt the 2 Prime Ministers to reconstruct stableness successful the narration and prosecute a constructive and balanced partnership, the 2 sides agreed to initiate indispensable steps to reactivate bilateral dialog mechanisms crossed divers domains, including trade, defence, energy, civilian nuclear, information and instrumentality enforcement, captious minerals, space, subject and technology, and agriculture, arsenic per the MEA.To enactment beardown people-to-people linkages and grow economical opportunities betwixt India and Canada, some sides besides decided to constructively code capacity-related issues astatine their respective Missions and Consulates.Deputy Foreign Minister David Morrison besides had an accidental to separately conscionable with Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri."India & Canada held pre-FOC consultations successful New Delhi connected Sept 19, led by Secretary (East) P. Kumaran & Deputy Foreign Minister David Morrison. Both sides welcomed the instrumentality of High Commissioners, reviewed bilateral ties, agreed to reactivate each dialog mechanisms, & code capableness issues astatine respective diplomatic missions," MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal wrote connected X.
