Mint Explainer: What the world thinks of Trudeau’s allegations against India
Joe Biden, the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron about the matter. According to a report in the Washington Post, Canada also approached countries part of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, which also includes Australia and New Zealand, prior to the G20 Summit in New Delhi. However, the same report states that these countries were unwilling to make a joint statement calling out India for its alleged role in killing Nijjar.
"We are deeply concerned about the allegations referenced by Prime Minister Trudeau," said Adrienne Watson, who serves as spokesperson of the US National Security Council. “We remain in regular contact with our Canadian partners. It is critical that Canada's investigation proceed and the perpetrators be brought to justice," she went on to add.
UK foreign secretary James Cleverly backed a probe into the killing of Nijjar. Australia’s foreign minister Penny Wong also said that his country's concerns on hearing the allegations and also revealed that Australia had communicated the same to India. She also noted that investigations were still underway.
These countries are caught in a difficult bind. While Canada has been a close ally historically, India is an emerging partner which has considerable strategic heft. Keeping India on side as competition with China heats up is a strategic imperative for the UK, the US, France and Australia.
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