India's diplomatic approach, military records with Canada to continue: Indian Army

New Delhi: Indian Army has said the tensions in India-Canada relations don't impact the armed force and India’s diplomatic approach, military records with Canada will continue.

Addressing the curtain raiser event on the scheduled Indo-Pacific Army Chiefs conference, Indian Army’s Additional Director General Strategic Planning Major General Abhinaya Rai said Canada's military the delegation was coming for the conference.

He said, "The Canadian chief is coming here. His delegation is coming here. When we look at the relationship with some neighbours of ours, where we may have had a standoff but we continue to engage them at all levels...I am directly referring to China here. Our diplomatic efforts as also the military efforts with even Canada continue to be there."

The Indo-Pacific Armies Chiefs Conference is to be held at Manekshaw Centre, Delhi Cantonment from September 26-27 in which the Canadian Army will be represented by its deputy commander Major General Peter Scott.

Indo-Canadian relations dipped after Canadian PM Justin Trudeau on Monday alleged that the Indian government was behind the fatal shooting of Hardeep Singh Nijjar a designated terrorist in India. The allegations were rejected by India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) which dubbed them ‘absurd ‘and ‘motivated’.

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