US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged India to cooperate with a Canadian investigation into the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar during a meeting with Foreign Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday, a US official said.
Jaishankar is currently on a five-day official trip to Washington DC. This is the highest-level interaction between the two countries after the recent G-20 Summit in New Delhi.
Speaking in Quebec earlier on Thursday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who had alleged an Indian role in the killing, said he was certain that Blinken would raise the issue with Jaishankar.
“Blinken raised the Canadian matter in his meeting and urged the Indian government to cooperate with Canada’s investigation,” the US official said, though a State Department statement made no mention of the issue.