Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday expressed optimism that Canadian International Minister Anita Anand’s go to to India would additional energise efforts to reinvigorate the bilateral partnership between the 2 nations. Anand, Canada’s Minister of International Affairs, met with PM Modi in New Delhi forward of her discussions with India’s Exterior Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar later within the day.
Welcoming Minister Anand, Prime Minister Modi recalled his go to to Canada in June this 12 months for the G7 Summit, throughout which he held what he described as an “extraordinarily productive” assembly with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
“The Prime Minister famous the significance of deepening cooperation between India and Canada in key sectors equivalent to commerce, power, expertise, agriculture, and people-to-people ties. He conveyed his heat regards to Prime Minister Mark Carney and mentioned he seemed ahead to their forthcoming engagements,” learn a press release from the Prime Minister’s Workplace.
Following the assembly, Minister Anand posted on X, “I met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi this morning in New Delhi. Constructing on the momentum of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s assembly with PM Modi this summer season on the G7 Summit, Canada and India are elevating the connection between our nations, whereas sustaining our regulation enforcement and safety dialogue and increasing our financial relationship.”
Talking after their assembly, EAM Jaishankar highlighted that India–Canada relations have seen regular progress in current months and famous each nations are working to revive the required frameworks for enhanced cooperation.
Welcoming Anand on her first go to to India in her present position, Jaishankar said, “India-Canada bilateral relations have been steadily progressing in the previous few months. We’re working to revive and reinvigorate the mechanisms essential to advance our partnership.”
He reiterated Prime Minister Modi’s optimistic outlook following his assembly with PM Carney in Kananaskis, “As Prime Minister Modi famous throughout his assembly with Prime Minister Carney, India’s method is to maneuver ahead with a optimistic mindset. This morning, you met the Prime Minister and heard instantly from him about our imaginative and prescient for cooperation and the way finest to grasp it.”
EAM Jaishankar additionally referenced current safety dialogues, together with a “productive” assembly between Indian Nationwide Safety Advisor Ajit Doval and his Canadian counterpart Nathalie G. Drouin, describing it as “an essential first step in direction of enhancing our safety cooperation.”
Additional noting continued engagement between the 2 sides, he mentioned, “Our international ministries, on the stage of the Secretary and Deputy Minister, met on 19 September to evaluation the general relationship. Our commerce ministers additionally held discussions just lately, on 11 October.”
Highlighting the potential for stronger ties, Jaishankar added, “After we have a look at Canada, we see a complementary economic system, one other open society, one which shares our values of range and pluralism. We imagine this varieties the idea for a detailed, sustainable, and long-term cooperative framework.”
He confirmed that each side are engaged on an formidable roadmap to advance collaboration throughout sectors, together with science and expertise, civil nuclear cooperation, synthetic intelligence, commerce, and agriculture.
Acknowledging the presence of each nations’ excessive commissioners on the assembly, he mentioned, “I’m glad that the 2 excessive commissioners have assumed their obligations in our respective capitals and are a part of at present’s assembly.”
Concluding his remarks, Jaishankar emphasised the shared accountability of each international ministers to drive ahead this renewed engagement, “Our accountability as international ministers is to shepherd the method of rebuilding our cooperation and to make sure that it delivers on the expectations of our prime ministers and the pursuits of our folks. It means not solely taking initiatives in our personal domains but in addition monitoring and integrating interactions throughout the complete breadth of presidency. I sit up for doing so, working carefully with you, Minister.”
(With inputs from IANS)