Bangalore/New Delhi, May 27: Taking a tough line, India today termed as “unacceptable” the denunciation of its security forces and intelligence establishment by Canada and gave it a one-week deadline to “address the situation appropriately”.
While Canada remained silent amid an outrage here, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said the Canadian High Commissioner had been “called” twice by his ministry to register protest over the issue.
“We have conveyed to the Canadian government that the letter issued by the Canadian High Commission to serving or retired officials of our security forces and agencies who had applied for Canadian visa are entirely unacceptable,” he told reporters in Bangalore.
“We expect the Canadian authorities to address the situation appropriately,” the minister said.
Asked what next step India contemplated, he said, “Let us wait for the Canadian authorities to address it”.
–Agencies