Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand visits India on Sunday to meet Jaishankar, Piyush Goyal - what's on agenda?

India and Canada will establish a framework for ‘strategic’ collaboration in trade, energy and safety during the Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand’s visit to New -Delhi on Sunday. Anand will have a wide discussion with Foreign Minister Jaishankar and the Minister of Trade, Piyush Goyal, who focuses on promoting bilateral ties in a variety of areas, officials told Pti. India will be Anand’s first stop in her three-nation tour that includes Singapore and China. In New -Delhi, Anand will meet Jaishankar and Goyal, as “both countries are on their way to establishing a framework for strategic collaboration on issues such as trade diversification, energy transformation and security,” a Canadian lecture said according to the publication. “Minister Anand will also travel to Mumbai, India, where she will meet with Canadian and Indian firms to support investment, job creation and economic opportunities in Canada and India,” it said. The Travel of the Canadian Foreign Minister to India comes more than three weeks after the National Security Advisor of Canada, Nathalie Drouin, visited India and held extensive talks with his Indian counterpart Deval. Days after the Deval-Drouin meeting, Canada appointed the Lawrence Bishnoi gang as a terrorist entity to violently target “certain communities” and create a “climate of fear and intimidation”. The renewed vibrancy in the ties between the two countries followed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s talks with his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney on the edge of the G7 Summit in Canada’s Kananascis in June. Renewed friendship after the period of tension The relations in India-Canada hit the then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegations in 2023 of a possible Indian link to the death of Hardep Singh Nijjar. India rejected the accusation of Trudeau as ‘absurd’. In October last year, India revoked its high commissioner and five other diplomats after Ottawa tried to link them to the Nijjar case. India has also expelled an equal number of Canadian diplomats. However, liberal party leader Carney’s victory in the parliamentary election in April helped to begin the process to return relations. Both sides have already placed their high commissioners in each other’s capitals. The two countries also agreed to revive various mechanisms to promote relationships in a variety of areas. Singapore, China -Agenda in Singapore, Anand will meet her Singaporean counterpart Vivian Balakrishnan to further strengthen Canada’s cooperation with “one of his most important partners” in Southeast Asia, the Canadian lecture said. In China, his Wang Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will meet to continue with the bilateral relationship, as Canada and China are 55 years of establishing diplomatic ties, it states. “This meeting builds on the commitment made by Prime Minister Mark Carney and China Prime Minister Li Qiang to regulate communication channels between the two countries,” it says. “The ministers will discuss the strategic partnership in Canada-China, the developing bilateral and global context, as well as issues of interest to the Canadian economy,” he added.