Nueva Delhi: After his name was initially lacking in the list of southern world leaders invited to the G7 summit in Canada, the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced on Friday that he had received the elusive invitation and would attend the Jamboree from June 15 to 17.
The Indian opposition had maintained the absence of the invitation to Modi as another sign of the isolation of India after the military escalation with Pakistan last month.
He Indian Express He said it was a sign of improving the ties between India and Canada that Mr. Modi was invited by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney for the next G7 meeting in Kananaskis at the end of this month.
The ties between the two countries had worsened under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who had leveled several accusations against India. The United States has arrested a man supposedly linked to the murder of a SIJ separatist in the Surrey district in Canada.
Canada and India reduced diplomatic ties after Trudeau, the then Canadian prime minister, triggered a political storm in 2023 when he alleged the “potential” participation of the Indian government agents in the murder of a Khalistan separatist with headquarters in Canada, Hardeep Singh Nijar.
India rejected charges as “absurd” and “motivated.” Although India is not part of G7, host nations generally invite some countries as guest countries or dissemination partners. “
“He congratulated him for his recent electoral victory and thanked him for the invitation to the G7 summit in Kananaskis at the end of this month. As the vibrant democracies united for deep ties of people to people, India and Canada will work together with a renewed vigor, guided by mutual respect and shared interests.
“We expect our meeting at the summit,” Modi said in the publication in X.
Posted in Dawn, June 7, 2025
