Ahead of her scheduled participation in the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting in March in New Delhi, Canada’s Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly made a quiet bilateral visit to the capital this week. Both sides appear keen to draw a line under the bitterness that has dogged their relationship over the last few years — and Canada’s freshly minted Indo-Pacific strategy, which has attracted notice for its unusually blunt language against China, seems to have provided an appropriate opening.
Joly’s February 6-7 visit, during which she met External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar for the India-Canada Strategic Dialogue, did not see any joint announcements or address to the media.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said the two Ministers “expressed interest in deepening collaboration across domains and look forward to the Early Progress Trade Agreement (EPTA)”. It welcomed…
