India and Canada person agreed to follow a collaborative attack towards a caller section successful bilateral ties, including moving intimately to combat coercion and transnational crimes, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said connected Saturday (September 20, 2025).
National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval and his Canadian counterpart Nathalie Drouin held wide-ranging talks successful New Delhi connected Thursday (September 18, 2025) with a absorption connected repairing the bilateral relations that came nether terrible strain pursuing a diplomatic spat implicit the sidesplitting of a Sikh separatist successful 2023.
The MEA came retired with wide outcomes of the talks connected Saturday (September 20, 2025).
“The 2 sides agreed to enactment intimately connected the mode guardant and follow a collaborative attack towards a caller section successful bilateral relations,” it said.
In June, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney connected the margins of the G-7 acme astatine Kananaskis successful Canada.
In the meeting, some leaders agreed to prosecute “constructive” steps to reconstruct stableness successful India-Canada ties.
It was besides an accidental to travel up connected the discussions betwixt Prime Minister Modi and Mr. Carney, the MEA said connected Doval-Drouin talks.
“Both sides acknowledged the wide momentum for rebuilding spot and expanding practice astatine the highest levels of governmental leadership,” it said.
The MEA said the 2 NSAs had “productive” discussions connected advancing the bilateral relationship, including successful areas specified arsenic antagonistic terrorism, combating transnational organised transgression and quality exchanges.
“They agreed to fortify information practice and further reenforce existing mechanisms of engagement,” the MEA said successful a statement.
It said, “The 2 NSAs besides deliberated connected the precedence areas for aboriginal practice and exchanged views connected determination and planetary developments.”
The talks betwixt the 2 NSAs came 3 weeks aft India and Canada appointed envoys to each other’s capitals.
India-Canada relations deed stone bottommost pursuing past Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegations successful 2023 of a imaginable Indian nexus to the sidesplitting of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
In October past year, India recalled its High 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.
