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G20 Agri ministers’ meet: Canada’s agricultural and agri-food minister, Marie-Claude Bibeau, attended the G20 agriculture ministers conference in Hyderabad, where she also met with India’s agriculture and farmers welfare minister, Narendra Singh Tomar, on the margins of the international event.
“Agricultural clean technologies, sustainable development and India’s potential as a driver of global food security through its agricultural sector and millet production”, Bibeau wrote on her official Twitter account after her meeting with Tomar.
They subsequently discussed agricultural clean technology, sustainable development, and India’s potential as a driver of global food security through its agricultural sector and millet production, she later added.
After his meeting with Bibeau, Tomar said, “Canada has a huge agricultural production and agro-technological advancements, which offer potential for cooperation with India”.
He went on to say that their conversations centered on reforming the two countries’ agricultural relations.
This is the second time a Canadian cabinet minister has visited India for G20 events, after the appearance of a parade float depicting the assassination of late Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at an event on June 4 in Brampton commemorating the 39th anniversary of Operation Bluestar, the military action ordered by the late PM in 1984 to flush out separatist leader Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale and his supporters from the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
The event aroused widespread indignation in India.
S Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs, expressed dissatisfaction in the developments.
“Frankly, we are at a loss to understand other than the requirements of vote bank politics why anybody would do this… I think there is a larger underlying issue about the space, which is given to separatists, to extremists, to people who advocate violence,” Jaishankar said while addressing the media.
Recently, India addressed a note verbale, an official diplomatic communication, to Global Affairs Canada (GAC) regarding pro-Khalistan groups planned an automobile parade to a memorial in Toronto constructed in commemoration of the 331 victims of the June 23, 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182, the Kanishka.
The June 25 event has enraged India because it honors Talwinder Singh Parmar, the Babbar Khalsa International commander widely regarded as the mastermind of the terror assault.
Following the release of the rally report, Canada’s foreign development minister, Harjit Sajjan, attended the three-day G20 development Ministers conference in Varanasi.
Mary Ng, Canada’s minister of international commerce, export, small business, and economic development, has issued an invitation to Canadian companies interested in exploring new business prospects in India, as well as the dates for the trade mission, which will take place from October 9 to 13.
Ng is also scheduled to visit India in August for the G20 trade ministers meeting, where she will meet Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and continue discussions on the two nations’ Early Progress Trade Agreement (EPTA).
Goyal visited Ottawa in May and had bilateral talks with Ng, giving the negotiations a boost.
Source:HT
