India-Canada row: Ahead of Jaishankar-Blinken meet, US says ‘have engaged with Indian counter, encouraged them to…'
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.
Did not come up in that meeting. We have engaged with our Indian counterparts on this issue and urged them to fully cooperate with the Canadian investigation," said State Department spokesperson Mathew Miller, while answering to India-Canada diplomatic row. “As we have made clear, we have raised this.
We have engaged with our Indian counter on this and encouraged them to cooperate with the Canadian investigation and we continue to encourage them to cooperate," he added. Earlier on Tuesday, when Jaishankar addressed the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, he said that “political convenience" should not be countenanced in determining responses to terrorism and extremism in an apparent reference to Canada amid a diplomatic standoff between the two countries. He also said that respect for territorial integrity and non-interference in internal affairs cannot be exercised in cherry-picking.
Jaishankar said there is a thrust on the promotion of a rules-based order and respect for the UN Charter is also invoked and that rules will work only when they apply equally to all. “But for all the talk, it is still a few nations who shape the agenda and seek to define the norms. This cannot go on indefinitely.
Nor will it go unchallenged. A fair, equitable and democratic order will surely emerge, once we all put our minds to it. And for a start,
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