OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — India and Canada appointed a new high commissioner for each other’s capital on Thursday as they recovered ties 10 months after banishing the best envoy in a conflict over alleged political assassination.
Foreign Minister Anita Anand said Christopher Cooter will become Canada’s new high commissioner for India. India’s Foreign Ministry said it would allocate the current envoy to Ottawa “soon” to Spain’s Dinesh Patnaik.
Canada-India relations have been tense since Canada Police accused New Delhi He plays a role in the June 2023 assassination of a Canadian Sikh activist near Vancouver. Police also reveal evidence of Enhancement Campaign to Canadian citizens by agents of the Indian government.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Kearney improved in June Invited the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and both countries have agreed to restore the top diplomats to Alberta’s G7 summit.
Nijar, 45, was fatally shot in a pickup truck after leaving a Sikh temple that led in Surrey, British Columbia. A Canadian Indian-born citizen, he owns a plumbing business and was once the rest of the strong movement to create an independent Sikh homeland.
Four Indian citizens living in Canada have been charged with the murder of Nijar.
Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau previously said that Indian diplomats had conveyed information about Canadians to the highest level of the Indian government, and Indian officials shared the information with organized crime groups, leading to violence against Canadians.
Trudeau said India violated Canadian sovereignty. India rejected the charges as absurd.
Canada is not the only country He criticized Indian officials They plot a plot to assassinate them in foreign soil. The US Department of Justice last year issued criminal charges against Indian government officials in connection with a failed conspiracy to kill a Sikh separatist leader in New York City.
India has repeatedly criticised soft Canada for supporters of the Khalistan movement, who live in Canada. The Kalistan movement is prohibited in India, but is especially supported by the Sikh diaspora in Canada. Approximately 2% of Canada’s population are Sikhs.
Cooter will assume the role of diplomat 35 years later, including posts to Israel and South Africa 25 years ago.
