Canada’s deputy minister for overseas affairs Marta Morgan spoke with her Indian counterpart International Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra on Thursday, capping a active 7 days of engagement involving India and Canada that witnessed overseas office environment and trade conversations and set up a likely program for increased bilateral dialogue later on this thirty day period.
In a tweet, Morgan, the senior-most bureaucrat at World-wide Affairs Canada, the country’s overseas ministry, mentioned they talked about “prosperity and balance in the Indo-Pacific region” as properly as Ukraine, and world-wide foodstuff stability, and “deepening cooperation involving our two democracies”.
That discussion could be the precursor of two substantial-profile conferences this thirty day period: Key Minister Narendra Modi could satisfy his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau at possibly the Commonwealth Heads of Authorities Assembly or CHOGM in Kigali, Rwanda or the G7 Summit at Schloss Elmau, Germany, later on this thirty day period. There is some question about Trudeau’s participation as he not long ago rested constructive for Covid-19, but in advance of that the Canadian primary minister’s office environment experienced formally declared he will be attending the two summits, as properly as the Nato Summit in Madrid.
At a reception organised by the Canada India Basis (CIF) in Toronto on Wednesday night, India’s Substantial Commissioner to Ottawa Ajay Bisaria mentioned a assembly was most likely but depended on scheduled lining up.
Also most likely is a assembly involving Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Canadian Minister of International Affairs Melanie Joly, however this also has still to be verified.
But Canada’s Minister of Intercontinental Trade Intercontinental Trade, Export Advertising, Tiny Small business and Financial Growth Mary Ng and Commerce and Market Minister Piyush Goyal held a just about two-hour prolonged assembly in Geneva, on the margins of the World Trade Organisation’s twelfth Ministerial Convention or MC12 there.
She tweeted that the assembly was “part of our Early Development Trade Arrangement negotiations”.
Trudeau himself was predicted to show up at an celebration in Ottawa celebrating the ongoing seventy fifth anniversary of India’s Independence on Tuesday but the coronavirus an infection prevented him from executing so, however Joly was current as main visitor on his behalf and prolonged his greetings.
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Anirudh Bhattacharya is a Toronto-primarily based commentator on North American difficulties, and an writer. He has also labored as a journalist in New Delhi and New York spanning print, tv and electronic media. He tweets as @anirudhb.
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