Carney and India’s Modi strike new energy partnership
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The two leaders announced a series of joint agreements, including a strategic energy partnership. Carney is currently in New Delhi.
Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday in New Delhi, where the two leaders announced a series of agreements, including a strategic energy partnership.
The deals come as new allegations emerge about the Indian government’s involvement in the murder of a Canadian Sikh activist.
“There has been more engagement between the Canadian and Indian governments in the last year than there has been in than two decades combined,” Carney said in joint remarks with Modi.
“So this is not merely the renewal of a relationship. It is the expansion of a valued partnership with new ambition.”
The agreements announced by Carney and Modi Monday include a $2.6 billion agreement in which Saskatoon-based Cameco would supply just under 22 million pounds of uranium to India for nuclear energy generation, and two memorandums of understanding that cover topics including critical minerals and energy sources.
A government release says the visit also led to 10 commercial agreements worth more than $5.5 billion.
The Carney-Modi meetings — a bilateral with respective delegations followed by a 35-minute private one-on-one — ran long, leading to the cancellation of lunch meeting with additional staff and the delay of a joint announcement.
Then a news conference with Carney, the first time the prime minister was set to answer questions from the media since the trip began Thursday, was cancelled just before it was scheduled to begin.
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