Indian External Affairs Minister Jaishankar said visa  services..

  Experts say  India  may have received security  assurances  for its diplomats  from  Canada. A  day after the US and UK expressed  displeasure over India forcing Canada to  recall  41 diplomats,  External Affairs Minister  S Jaishankar said  visa services, which were suspended a month  ago, would soon be resumed. 

• Speaking at an event here on Sunday, Jaishankar said India  was  reviewing the security situation  faced by  its diplomats  in Canada and expressed hope that  the country could  resume  the epidemic soon.  visa  issuance.  

  However, experts say this is  not  India’s decline following  pressure from  Canada’s  Five Eyes  allies.  

  “Jaishankar’s suggestion  that there  may  be an improvement in security conditions, leading to  the re-establishment  of visa services, may mean that  confidential  discussions have taken place about credible  assurances trust  from Canada  regarding the  security  of  our diplomats in  this  country,”  the  former diplomat  said.  P S Raghavan told this newspaper. 

• According to sources, the  threat to the  security  of  Indian diplomats  in Canada is  real. They pointed out that  Indian diplomats  stationed  in Canada  had also  faced problems from  Khalistan  supporters in the  past.

India suspended  visa  issuance  to Canadians on September  21,  citing  increasing  threats to  the security of  its diplomatic missions there and a lack of action by  Canadian authorities to  address them. address these  threats.  

Pro-Khalistan groups  have  called for  the closure  of  Indian  diplomatic missions in Canada after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau alleged  India’s  role in  the assassination of the  Canada-based  Khalistan activist was  Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June.  Subsequently,  India raised the issue of diplomatic  equality  with Canada, forcing Ottawa to withdraw  more than  40 diplomats from India. Trudeau claimed  that  India  had  violated the Vienna Convention, a claim  which India rejected.  

 On Sunday, Jaishankar clarified that one  of the reasons  India sought  to reduce the number  of Canadian diplomats here was  because  they  interfered  in the  country’s  internal affairs.  “We  are not comfortable  with many of them and  people will  soon understand  why we  are not comfortable  with many of them,” he added.

Pro-Khalistan groups  shut down India’s  diplomatic missions in Canada after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau alleged  India’s involvement  in  the murder of  Canada-based  Khalidani  militant Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June.  was looking for.  India  subsequently  raised the issue of diplomatic parity with Canada,  and  Ottawa  withdrew more than  40 diplomats from India. 

 Prime Minister  Trudeau claimed  that  India  was in violation of  the Vienna Convention, a claim  that India denied.  On Sunday, Jaishankar clarified that one  of the reasons  India  wants to reduce the number  of Canadian diplomats  is because of their interference  in  internal affairs. 

 “We made a lot  of them  uncomfortable,  and soon people will  understand  why we  made a lot  of  them uncomfortable,”  he added. After  “surplus”  Canadian diplomats were forced to leave India, both the  United States  and  Britain were ready  to support  Ottawa and express  their  dissatisfaction with  the diplomatic  dispute.  In  this  context,  Jaishankar’s  announcement on Sunday could ease tensions.

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Source: www.thehindu.com