India, Canada agree to reinstate high commissioners
India and Canada on Tuesday agreed to designate new high commissioners in each other’s capitals after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney held a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs said that both sides agreed to take steps “to restore stability in the relationship, beginning with the early return of high commissioners to each other’s capitals”.
Other diplomatic steps will “follow in due course”, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said. He added that the two prime ministers also agreed to resume “senior and working-level mechanisms and discussions in a host of areas related to trade, people-to-people contact and connectivity”.
In remarks alongside Carney, Modi noted that several Canadian companies have investments in India, and that Indian citizens have made major contributions in Canada.
The Indian prime minister expressed confidence that in the coming days, the two countries “will achieve significant progress together in several sectors”.