NEW DELHI: Canadian overseas minister Anita Anand landed in New Delhi on Sunday night for a three-day go to geared toward boosting diplomatic and financial ties with India, as a part of her broader tour of the Indo-Pacific area that features Singapore and China.Throughout her keep within the nationwide capital, Anand will meet exterior affairs minister S Jaishankar and commerce and trade minister Piyush Goyal. The conferences, scheduled for Monday, are anticipated to give attention to advancing a framework for strategic cooperation overlaying commerce diversification, power transformation, and safety. She is going to later journey to Mumbai to satisfy Indian and Canadian enterprise leaders working to deepen funding and job creation throughout each economies.Asserting the journey earlier, the Canadian authorities stated the go to was a part of efforts to “advance bilateral relations and cooperation” with key Indo-Pacific companions. “For Canada to be sturdy at house, we want sturdy, steady partnerships overseas. I’m constructing bridges and rising cooperation with India, Singapore and China,” Anand stated in an announcement. “In keeping with Canada’s Indo-Pacific Technique, I will probably be working to advance efforts to place Canada as a trusted, dependable associate of alternative for Indo-Pacific international locations and their economies.”The ministry of exterior affairs confirmed Anand’s official schedule, with conferences set at Hyderabad Home and Vanijya Bhavan earlier than her departure for Mumbai on Monday night.MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal welcomed Anand on her first official go to to India, describing it as a possibility to “construct on the optimistic momentum in India-Canada relations by revitalising our bilateral mechanisms, deepening financial cooperation, and additional strengthening the enduring people-to-people ties that anchor our partnership.”The go to comes amid cautious efforts by each side to normalise engagement following a interval of strained relations final yr. Canada and India share greater than 75 years of diplomatic ties, underpinned by sturdy group and enterprise hyperlinks. Two-way commerce between the international locations stood at $33.9 billion in 2024, with Canada’s exports to India totalling $5.3 billion, Ottawa stated.Anand will proceed her tour with stops in Singapore, marking 60 years of diplomatic relations, and in China, the place she’s going to meet overseas minister Wang Yi to mark 55 years of Canada-China diplomatic ties.