UK calls for respecting sovereignty as Canada-India row endures

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British government says all countries should respect sovereignty and rule of law after India reportedly asks Canada to withdraw 41 diplomats amidst their spat over Sikh leader's murder in British Colu

mbia.Canada is home to the largest Sikh community in the world outside of India, with 770,000 Canadians professing Sikhism in 2021, or two percent of the country's population. / Photo: Reuters Archive.

"The Prime Minister reaffirmed the UK's position that all countries should respect sovereignty and the rule of law, including the principles of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations," a government spokesperson said in a statement on Friday after Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak spoke with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Tensions between India and Canada escalated last month when Canada said it was"actively pursuing credible allegations" linking Indian government agents to the murder of a Sikh activist, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in British Columbia in June.

 

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