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Canada's Foreign Minister Anita Anand arrived successful the nationalist superior connected Sunday (October 12, 2025), a time earlier talks with her Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar.
The discussions are expected to absorption connected mounting up a model for bilateral "strategic" practice successful areas of trade, vigor and security.
It is Ms. Anand's archetypal sojourn to India aft assuming complaint arsenic the overseas curate successful May. She is besides scheduled to conscionable Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal to sermon ways to boost two-way commercialized ties.
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"This sojourn volition assistance physique connected the affirmative momentum successful India-Canada relations by revitalising our bilateral mechanisms, deepening economical cooperation, and further strengthening the enduring people-to-people ties that anchor our partnership," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said connected X.
New Delhi is Ms. Anand's archetypal halt of her three-nation circuit that volition besides instrumentality her to China and Singapore.
In New Delhi, Minister Anand volition conscionable with Mr. Jaishankar and Mr. Goyal, arsenic "both countries determination toward establishing a model for strategical practice connected issues specified arsenic commercialized diversification, vigor translation and security", a Canadian readout said connected Saturday.
"Minister Anand volition besides question to Mumbai, India, wherever she volition conscionable with Canadian and Indian firms moving to enactment investment, occupation instauration and economical accidental successful Canada and India," it said.
The Canadian overseas minister's sojourn comes much than 3 weeks aft Canada's National Security Advisor Nathalie Drouin visited India and held extended talks with his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval.
Days aft the Doval-Drouin meeting, Canada designated the Lawrence Bishnoi gang arsenic a violent entity for "violently targeting" definite communities and creating a "climate of fearfulness and intimidation".
The renewed vibrancy successful the ties betwixt the 2 countries followed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's talks with his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney connected the margins of the G7 Summit astatine Canada's Kananaskis successful June.
The India-Canada relations deed a stone bottommost pursuing the past Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegations successful 2023 of a imaginable Indian nexus to the sidesplitting of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
India had dismissed Mr. Trudeau's accusation arsenic "absurd".
In October past year, India recalled its precocious commissioner and 5 different diplomats aft Ottawa attempted to nexus them to the Nijjar case.
India besides expelled an adjacent fig of Canadian diplomats.
However, Liberal Party person Carney's triumph successful the parliamentary predetermination successful April helped successful opening the process to reset relations.
Both sides person already posted their precocious commissioners successful each other's capitals.
The 2 countries besides agreed to revive respective mechanisms to beforehand relations successful a scope of areas.
In Singapore, Minister Anand volition conscionable with her counterpart Vivian Balakrishnan, to further fortify Canada's practice with "one of its astir important partners" successful Southeast Asia, the Canadian readout said.
In China, she volition conscionable Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi to proceed bilateral engagement arsenic some the countries people 55 years of establishing diplomatic ties, it said.
