India, Canada firm up roadmap to expand ties; resolve to respect each other’s ‘sensitivities’

India and Canada have stepped up efforts to strengthen cooperation in several areas like trade, energy, technology and people to people linkages in a bid to reset their ties that hit rock bottom in 2023 that included expulsion of each other's diplomats.

- OUR CORRESPONDENT

Canada’s Foreign Minister Anita Anand, making her first official visit to India, met her counterpart S Jaishankar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Capital on Monday. PM Modi told her the visit would strengthen “efforts to impart new momentum’ to the partnership of the two countries.

Noting the significance of India-Canada ties in several areas, Modi, in his meeting with the Canadian Foreign Minister, recalled his visit to Canada in June this year for the G7 Summit during which he held an “extremely productive” meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, an official readout said.

"The prime minister noted the significance of enhanced cooperation between the two countries in trade, energy, technology, agriculture and people-to-people ties," it said.

Modi also conveyed his warm wishes to Carney and said that he looked forward to their upcoming engagements.

Anand arrived in New Delhi last evening as part of her three-nation tour that will also take her to China and Singapore.

It is learnt that the Indian side also flagged its concerns over activities of certain pro-Khalistan elements in Canada.