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Jaishankar raised the issue of Canada's attitude towards terrorism in talks with America

News On Time Desk 30 September 2023

Washington: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said the diplomatic row between Canada and India was discussed in his meeting with top US officials - Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. He briefed both of them on India's side, which included an assessment of "a very lenient Canadian attitude towards terrorists".

Jaishankar met Blinken and Sullivan on Thursday, his first day in Washington DC after the UN General Assembly meeting in New York. The US readout of the meeting with Blinken and Jaishankar's post on X did not say anything about Canada.Minister Jaishankar acknowledged at an event at the Hudson Institute, a think tank, that the matter had indeed come up for discussion and US officials had presented their views on it, and I explained to him in some detail.

What I told you was a summary of my concerns. The summary he referred to was his presentation of India's case which he had given at the think tank a few minutes earlier in response to a question. Here is what the minister said in the summary: Yes, the Canadian Prime Minister made some allegations, Initially privately and then publicly. And our response to him, both privately and publicly, was that the allegations he was making were not consistent with our policy.

And if they have – if their government has – anything relevant and specific that they would like us to look at, then we are ready to look at that. And that's where the conversation stopped. He added: But to understand that conversation, you also have to understand that this has been a point of major friction with Canada for many years.

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