Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 11:40am on 22 Oct 2023,Sunday India Global
India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar announced on Sunday that India had invoked diplomatic parity with Canada, leading the North American nation to recall 41 of its diplomats. This decision was prompted by concerns regarding "continuous interference" in India's internal affairs by Canadian personnel. Jaishankar underscored the significance of parity, which is a principle enshrined in the Vienna Convention, an international diplomatic agreement. He stated, "But in our case, we invoked parity because we had concerns about continuous interference in our affairs by Canadian personnel. We haven't made much of that public. My sense is over time, more details will emerge, shedding light on why we felt uncomfortable with many of them.
