Overview
- Meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, the ministers agreed to advance shared priorities including economic prosperity, security and global governance, according to Global Affairs Canada.
- Both governments have reinstated top envoys, with India’s Dinesh K. Patnaik presenting credentials in Ottawa and Canada’s high commissioner posted in New Delhi, steps both sides called progress toward rebuilding ties.
- Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand is planning a visit to New Delhi on October 13–14 to discuss next steps in the relationship.
- Anand said India is actively collaborating in the Nijjar investigation, and officials are maintaining a step-by-step law-enforcement dialogue as diplomatic engagement resumes.
- Security developments continue to shape the pace of normalization, as Canada designated the Lawrence Bishnoi gang a terrorist entity and a U.S. DOJ filing seeks to link the Pannun plot to Nijjar’s killing while asserting Vikas Yadav’s employment by the Government of India.