PM Modi is unlikely to travel to Canada for the next G7 Summit due to tense relations between Ottawa and New Delhi. The sources added that the relationship needs to improve before any such high-profile visit occurs and that neither the Canadian nor the Indian sides had approached India about the visit.
Given the chilly relations between Ottawa and New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not expected to travel to Canada for the next G7 summit. The world’s top industrialized economies—France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, and Canada—are together known as the G7. Additionally invited are the United Nations, the World Bank, the IMF, and the European Union (EU).
There is still ambiguity around PM Modi’s visit, despite reports that South Africa, Ukraine, and Australia have accepted invitations from Canada.
According to reports, India has not yet received an official invitation to the summit, which Canada is hosting from June 15–17, and the Indian side is not interested in attending. They also stated that a more positive connection must exist before a high-profile visit of this kind occurs.
Furthermore, according to sources, if Prime Minister Modi were to visit Canada again, security issues would need to be resolved.
On two separate times last month, the Ministry of External Affairs said that there was “no information” regarding PM Modi’s G7 summit travel to Canada.
While acknowledging that the assassination of Khalistani separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian soil caused strained bilateral ties between the two countries, Canada’s foreign minister, Ankita Anand, told the Globe and Mail that the recently elected Mark Carney government was interested in forging a closer partnership with India.
After then-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau charged the Narendra Modi government with involvement in the incident, the matter attracted international attention. Trudeau’s accusations were strongly rejected by India, which referred to them as “baseless.”
