There’s room for diplomacy: Jaishankar on India’s diplomatic row with Canada | India Information

NEW DELHI: Exterior affairs minister S Jaishankar on Saturday mentioned there’s a room for diplomacy to deal with the continued bilateral row between India and Canada, including that either side are in contact to ease the tensions.
The connection between India and Canada plummeted after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s allegations of a “potential” involvement of Indian brokers within the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.India rejected Trudeau’s allegations as “absurd” and “motivated”.
Talking at a summit within the nationwide capital, Jaishankar mentioned either side have been in contact and hoped {that a} method could be discovered to resolve the row.
On the similar time, the minister asserted that “sovereignty and sensitivity” can’t be one-way streets.
“My hope definitely could be that we discover a method … Sovereignty, sensitivity – these can’t be one-way streets. They could have their considerations. I’ve by no means ever with any nation mentioned that I’m not prepared to speak to them about their reliable considerations,” he mentioned.
“Nevertheless it can’t be that the dialog is totally dismissive of my considerations and my sensitivities,” he added.
Earlier, Canadian overseas minister Melanie Joly had additionally mentioned that she was in contact along with her Jaishankar and can proceed to take action as a result of it is a relationship that spanned a long time and the 2 nations have very sturdy people-to-people ties.

Whereas diplomatic tensions between the 2 nations persist, India had final month resumed some visa providers in Canada, greater than a month after they have been suspended on the top of the row.
Canada has already withdrawn 41 diplomats and their members of the family from India.
Jaishankar defined India’s total proposition that he mentioned might apply to Canada as properly.
“There are numerous nations the place there’s freedom of speech and expression together with India. However that can’t be a license to advocate violence and intimidation or to propagate separatism, extremism and worse,” he mentioned.
“So the issue that we now have confronted is basically that we now have seen actions which have been justified within the identify of freedoms,” he mentioned.
“Now, I’ve a quite simple scent take a look at for each nation on the earth – which is in case you suppose that’s proper, would you want that to be finished to you? And principally I do not get a solution,” he added.
The exterior affairs minister mentioned either side have been in contact.
“It’s a dialog that has been happening for a very long time and sadly, on this explicit case, in Canada, occasions took a sure flip,” he mentioned.
(With inputs from PTI)