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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his American counterpart, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, held a bilateral meeting during Jaishankar’s ongoing visit to the United States. In the runup to the meeting, all eyes were on how the US would deal with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegation that India was involved in the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a pro-Khalistan figure in Canada. Mint breaks down the developments.

National Post. Highlighting India's growing global influence, Trudeau emphasized the "extreme importance" of Canada and its allies maintaining active engagement with India.

State Department spokesperson Mathew Miller said that India can speak for itself regarding the Canadian allegations related to Khalistterrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar's killing and the ongoing investigations. He mentioned that Washington has urged New Delhi to collaborate with the Canadian investigation. During the press briefing, State Department spokesperson Mathew Miller was asked whether the issue of Canadian allegations will be raised during External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's meeting with his US counterpart Antony Blinken. «One of the practices I'm going to continue to try to adhere to, is to not speak publicly about what, Secretary Blinken or other representatives of this department will say in their meetings before the Secretary has a chance to say it directly to those counterparts,» Miller said. He added, «We have consistently engaged with the Indian Government on this question and have urged them to cooperate. And that engagement and the urge for them to cooperate will continue». On being further asked about India's response to the US' call for cooperation in the investigation, Miller refused to comment on what is said in private diplomatic conversations. «They can speak for themselves.

Trudeau said that Canada is still committed to building closer ties with India, despite «credible allegations» of the Indian government's involvement in the killing of Khalistterrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Canada-based National Post reported. Pointing to the increasing influence of India worldwide, Trudeau said that it is «extremely important» that Canada and its allies continue to engage with India. Speaking at a press conference in Montreal on Thursday, Trudeau said that he thinks it is «extremely important» that Canada and its allies continue to engage «constructively and seriously» with India given its growing importance on the world stage. «India is a growing economic power and important geopolitical player. And as we presented with our Indo-Pacific strategy, just last year, we're very serious about building closer ties with India,» he told reporters. «At the same time, obviously, as a rule of law country, we need to emphasize that India needs to work with Canada to ensure that we get the full facts of this matter,» National Post quoted Trudeau as saying. Trudeau said he got assurances from the US that Secretary of State Antony Blinken would be raising the allegations made publicly about India's role in Nijjar's murder during a meeting with his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar in Washington DC on Thursday. «The Americans have been with us in speaking to the Indian government about how important it is that they be involved in following up on the credible allegations that agents of the Indian government killed a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil,» National Post quoted Trudeau as saying. «This is something that all democratic countries, all countries that respect the rule of law need to take seriously.

India and the US agreed to continue their cooperation in the areas of defence, space and clean energy as External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Secretary of State Antony Blinken here, amid a simmering diplomatic row between India and Canada over the killing of a Khalistani separatist. Jaishankar is currently on a five-day official trip to Washington DC. This is the highest-level interaction between the two countries after the recent G-20 Summit in New Delhi.

NEW DELHI : The US has urged India to cooperate with Canada’s investigation into the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, state department spokesperson Matthew Miller said before a meeting between foreign minister S. Jaishankar and his opposite number, secretary of state Anthony Blinken.

India-Canada diplomatic standoff regarding the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar didn’t come up during last week's meeting between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. While answering on India Canada diplomatic row, Miller said, “That was not a bilateral meeting. It was a meeting of a number of countries.

US State Department on Wednesday informed that the India-Canada diplomatic standoff regarding the killing of Khalistan terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar didn't come up during last week's meeting between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Jaishankar had met his US counterpart Blinken in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa were also present at the Quad meeting. «That was not a bilateral meeting.

NEW DELHI : A push by India and the Philippines to renegotiate their investment agreement is moving slowly, according to persons aware of the matter. The agreement, which was signed in 2000 and came into force in 2001, expired in 2011. New Delhi has called for the agreement to be terminated and replaced by a new Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT).

India-Russia relations have held «very, very steady» and «we take great care» to make sure that the relationship is working, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. During a conversation at the Council on Foreign Relations here on Tuesday, Jaishankar said that Russia's relationship with Europe and the West has been «so severely disrupted» in the wake of the February 2022 Ukraine war that Moscow is actually turning to Asia and other parts of the world.

India-China relationship that has gone through cycles of conflict and cooperation over 75 years, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said the ties between the two nations have not been easy. Speaking at the ‘Discussion at Council on Foreign Relations’ in New York, Jaishankar said, “I was the ambassador in 2009, right after the global financial crisis, till 2013. I saw the change of guard in China, and then I came to the US.

Catch all the LIVE updates on Manipur news here, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said efforts are on in Manipur by the state and the central governments to find a way by which a sense of normalcy returns and there is adequate law-and-order enforcement."...I think one part of the problem in Manipur has been the destabilising impact of migrants who have come," he said Tuesday at the Council on Foreign Relations in response to a question on the situation in the northeastern state in India.Hours after photos of the bodies of two students, who had been missing since July, went viral on social media, the Manipur government has asked people to exercise restraint and allow authorities to investigate the "kidnapping and killing" of the duo.In a statement issued by the secretariat of Chief Minister N Biren Singh late on Monday night, the state government said the case has already been handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).Photos of two students, previously reported missing since July 2023, emerged on social media platforms.

India-Canada row, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar highlighted the «organised crime, related to secessionist forces, violence and extremism» in Canada, raising concerns over them being «very permissive» due to political reasons. Speaking at the 'Discussion at Council on Foreign Relations' in New York, Jaishankar said, «In the last few years, Canada actually has seen a lot of organized crime, relating to the secessionist forces, organized crime, violence and extremism. They're all very, very deeply mixed up.

NEW DELHI : The goals that India has set for itself as it aspires to become a “great power" will make it “different" from the powers that preceded it, external affairs minister S Jaishankar told the United Nations in an address on Tuesday. “The days when a few nations set the agenda and expected others to fall in line are over as the United Nations itself symbolizes," declared Jaishankar, while delivering India’s national statement at the UN General Assembly. During his remarks, Jaishankar positioned India as a power determined to act in the interest of globally under-represented nations.

Jaishankar on Tuesday said that the days when a few nations set the agenda and expected others to fall in line are over. India fully support UNGA's theme of rebuilding trust and reigniting global solidarity and this is an occasion to take stock of our achievements and challenges even while sharing our aspirations and goals and there is much that India has to share, EAM said.

India's G20 Presidency was «challenging» as it came amid «a very sharp» East-West polarisation and «very deep» North-South divide, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. The remarks by Jaishankar came at a special 'India-UN for Global South: Delivering for Development' side event he hosted here on Saturday on the margins of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly. «We meet just a few weeks after the New Delhi G20 Summit, a summit which took place on the theme of 'One Earth, One Family, One Future'.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that it is still a world of «double standards» and those countries which are occupying positions of influence are resisting the pressure to change and those with historical influence have weaponised a lot of those capabilities. Jaishankar was speaking at a Ministerial Session titled 'South Rising: Partnerships, Institutions and Ideas' hosted by the Observer Research Foundation, in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, United Nations India and the Reliance Foundation. «I think more than political will, there is political pressure for change,» he said here on Saturday. There is a growing sentiment in the world and the global South in a way embodies it. But there's also political resistance, he said. «Those who are occupying positions of influence, we see this in the UN Security Council most of all, are resisting the pressure to change. »Those who are economically dominant today are leveraging their production capabilities and those who have institutional influence or historical influence have actually weaponised a lot of those capabilities as well," Jaishankar said. «They will all mouth the right things, but the reality is still today, it's a world very much of double standards,» Jaishankar said. COVID itself was an example of it, he said, «But I think this whole transition will really be in a sense the global South putting more and more pressure on the international system.

Shombi Sharp said that the UN in India is pleased to have an exchange of Letters of Intent with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new partnership to help amplify India and South-South cooperation. In an interview with ANI, Sharp said, «We also were very pleased on behalf of the United Nations in India, to launch or to have an exchange of Letter of Intent with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a brand new partnership to help amplify Indian South-South Cooperation. Reflecting that the UN system in India really has a true two-way partnership with India.» Shombi Sharp's remarks came after an exchange of a Letter of Intent between UN-India and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the presence of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar was held at the India-UN for Global South: Delivering for Development event. He said that the UN is identifying best practices of India's development and helping to codify that and share that practice with other nations for their benefit.

sovereignty and territorial integrity underpin the development of the Indo-Pacific region and expressed serious concern on the militarisation of disputed features, the dangerous use of coast guard and maritime militia vessels, and efforts to disrupt other countries' offshore exploitation activities. The Quad or the Quadrilateral coalition is a plurilateral framework comprising India, Australia, Japan and the US formed in 2017 to counter China's aggressive behaviour in the Indo-Pacific region. Foreign ministers of the four-nation bloc — External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Japanese Foreign Minister Kamikawa Yoko — met on the margins of the high-level 78th session of the UN General Assembly for the Quad Foreign Ministers' meeting and reaffirmed their commitment to uphold the principles of the UN Charter. «We reaffirm our conviction that international law, respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, and the maintenance of peace and security in the maritime domain underpin the development and prosperity of the Indo-Pacific,» a joint readout of the Quad Foreign Ministers' meeting said. The ministers emphasised that disputes should be resolved peacefully and in accordance with international law, without threat or use of force. «We emphasise the importance of adherence to international law, particularly as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), to address challenges to the global maritime rules-based order, including with respect to maritime claims, and in the South and East China Seas,» they said in the joint statement. The ministers emphasised the importance of maintaining freedom of navigation and

NEW DELHI : Belgium is planning a high level visit from its senior leadership to India early next year, according to persons aware of the matter. The visit is expected to be at the foreign minister or prime minister level. This comes as Belgian firms eye opportunities in India’s burgeoning defence market, on the footsteps of French, Spanish and German defence firms that have stitched up lucrative contracts with India.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday expressed his happiness over the conferment of UNESCO's World Heritage status on Santiniketan, the abode of Rabindranath Tagore in the Burbhum district of West Bengal. Santiniketan was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage list during the 45th Session of the World Heritage Committee in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, the UN agency informed through a post on the social media platform 'X'. Responding to the post by Vishal V Sharma, India's ambassador and permanent representative to UNESCO, on X, Jaishankar wrote, «Congratulations. A fitting tribute to our first Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and all those who have kept his message alive.» Earlier, taking to his social media 'X', Vishal V Sharma said it is a great day for Indians as Santiniketan had been inscribed on UNESCO'S World Heritage List. «Santiniketan inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List (Agenda 45COM.8B.10).