As the continuing diplomatic tensions between India and Canada proceed to simmer, the Ministry of Exterior Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal on Thursday reiterated that Canada has not shared any shred of knowledge with India since September 2023. He additionally slammed Canada for levelling critical allegations towards India however failing to offer any proof to again it up.
The MEA spokesperson’s remarks got here a day after Canadian PM Justin Trudeau admitted that he didn’t have laborious proof to substantiate the allegations towards India and that Canada solely had intel in regards to the alleged involvement of Indian authorities brokers within the killing of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
“Now we have made our place very clear on this matter, a number of press releases have been issued within the final two days placing out our place which could be very clear that since September 2023, the Canadian authorities has not shared any shred of knowledge with us. Yesterday once more, after the general public listening to, we had issued an announcement saying that Canada has levelled critical allegations however has up to now not given any proof to again it up,” Jaiswal mentioned.
Whereas responding to a query on India’s stance on a number of international locations commenting on the continuing diplomatic row with Canada, Jaiswal mentioned: “I’d allude to the assertion made by the State Division; we might say that so far as the allegations are involved, PM Trudeau’s personal admission yesterday would point out the worth as regards our stance on the allegations. We are going to naturally reject false imputations towards our diplomats.”
VIDEO | “Now we have made our place very clear on this matter, a number of press releases have been issued within the final two days placing out our place which could be very clear that since September 2023, the Canadian authorities has not shared any shred of knowledge with us. Yesterday… pic.twitter.com/fFBk5SMCOB
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Earlier right this moment, MEA had issued an announcement following Trudeau’s admission saying that what it has heard within the Canadian PM’s testimony solely confirms what India had been saying all alongside. “Canada has offered us no proof in any way in assist of the intense allegations that it has chosen to degree towards India and Indian diplomats,” the MEA assertion learn.
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On Monday, India had expelled six Canadian diplomats and introduced that it could be withdrawing its Excessive Commissioner from Canada. Commenting on this, Jaiswal mentioned that India made the choice to summon the Excessive Commissioner because it has “no religion” that Canada would maintain the diplomats safely.
“We had summoned the appearing Excessive Commissioner of Canada and thereafter conveyed that we had no religion that the Canadian authorities will take care of the protection of our diplomats and subsequently, we had taken a choice to withdraw our Excessive Commissioner and 5 different diplomats together with him. Subsequent to that, we noticed that there was a communication from the Canadian facet asking them to go away, however we had withdrawn our diplomats earlier than their choice,” Randhir Jaiswal acknowledged.
VIDEO | “We had summoned the appearing Excessive Commissioner of Canada and thereafter conveyed that we had no religion that the Canadian authorities will take care of the protection of our diplomats and subsequently, we had taken a choice to withdraw our Excessive Commissioner and 5 different diplomats… pic.twitter.com/HP1QOamtPm
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The MEA spokesperson additionally spoke about India-Canada ties, which have clearly hit an all time low after Trudeau’s allegations towards India. He mentioned that the continuing disaster was initiated by the Canadian PM’s “baseless allegations”.
“India-Canada financial ties are very sturdy and vibrant. Now we have giant Indian diaspora in Canada which is a bridge by which we preserve sturdy people-to-people hyperlinks with Canada. Now we have probably the most important cohort of worldwide college students in Canada as effectively. This explicit disaster has been precipitated by Trudeau authorities’s baseless allegations. That is how we see the connection going ahead,” he provides.
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