Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Justin Trudeau meet on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Laos nearly a year after his Canadian counterpart had accused India of involvement with the death of a Canadian Khalistani separatist.
In the bid for seeking support amid the international pressure mounting against Russia over the alleged role in shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, while speaking to journalists, CBC News reported Trudeau as saying that the meeting was a "brief exchange" when the two leaders met during the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Vientiane, Laos on Thursday.
"I emphasized there is work that we need to do," the CBC News quoted Trudeau.
"We discussed various issues, and I will not go into details of what we discussed but what I have said time and again is that the safety of Canadians and the upholding of the rule of law is one of the main responsibilities of any Canadian government and that is what I will continue to focus on," Trudeau told a press conference at Vientiane.
The India-Canada bonds had been frayed last year when, in September, Trudeau accused a "potential" involvement of Indian agents in killing Hardeep Singh Nijjar outside a gurdwara in Surrey city on June 18, 2023.
India, which had designated Nijjar as a terrorist in 2020, has strongly rejected these allegations of Trudeau as "absurd" and "motivated".
