Allies offer Canada some support as they walk 'diplomatic tightrope' in wake of murder accusations

Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly, centre, and Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic LeBlanc, right, speak to reporters in the Foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canadian authorities had intelligence that India was responsible for the June fatal shooting of a prominent Sikh leader in Surrey, B.C.

“I would argue that the U.S. and a number of its other Western allies need to walk this very delicate diplomatic tightrope, because they view Canada as an ally, but they also value their partnership with India, which has taken on greater strategic dimensions in recent years,” said Michael Kugelman, director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.The United States government said in a statement Tuesday that it was “deeply concerned” about the allegations.

Meanwhile, a statement from Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong said that country is “closely engaged with partners on developments. We have conveyed our concerns at senior levels to India.” Emily Williams, Joly’s director of communications, said in a statement that “Minister Jaishankar, the Foreign Minister of India, is the only foreign minister that Minister Joly engaged with in regards to the allegations surrounding the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar ahead of the Prime Minister’s announcement yesterday.”

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