Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has stated by revoking diplomatic immunity to 40 diplomats, India contravened a really fundamental precept of diplomacy. Continuing his tirade in opposition to India on Friday, he stated India violated the Vienna Convention guidelines and all nations on this planet needs to be anxious in regards to the transfer. He additionally broached the topic of the homicide of Khalistan terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. He additionally stated New Delhi was making it “unbelievably difficult for life as usual to continue for millions of people in India and in Canada”.

“The actions that the Government of India took this week are themselves contrary to international law. The Government of India decided to unilaterally revoke the diplomatic immunity of 40 Canadian diplomats in India. This is a violation of the Vienna Convention governing diplomacy…It is something that all countries in the world should be worried about and this is putting aside the allegations we made of a serious violation of international law with the alleged killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil that the Indian government could have been involved in,” he stated.

“The Government of India decided to revoke the diplomatic protections of 40 diplomats working in India…The Indian government is making it unbelievably difficult for life as usual to continue for millions of people in India and in Canada and they’re doing it by contravening a very basic principle of diplomacy,” he added.

He was talking at an occasion in Brampton.

Canada on Friday withdrew 41 diplomats from India days after New Delhi insisted on their removing alleging interference in inside affairs. New Delhi had requested for the removing saying it wished to attain parity within the variety of diplomatic workers stationed in India and Canada.

The Ministry of External Affairs, in a press release on Friday, dismissed Canada’s allegations that worldwide regulation had been violated by its motion.

“The state of our bilateral relations, the much higher number of Canadian diplomats in India, and their continued interference in our internal affairs warrant a parity in mutual diplomatic presence in New Delhi and Ottawa.”

Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly said Ottawa has “decided not to reciprocate” even as the development was defined as “expulsion” of the Canadian diplomats.

India defended its actions for diplomatic parity by saying they are fully consistent with Article 11.1 of the Vienna Convention. This article states: “In the absence of specific agreement as to the size of the mission, the receiving State may require that the size of a mission be kept within limits considered by it to be reasonable and normal, having regard to circumstances and conditions in the receiving State and to the needs of the particular mission.”

Meanwhile, the US and UK, in support of Canada, have expressed concerns over the departure of Canadian diplomats from India.

“We are involved by the departure of Canadian diplomats from India, in response to the Indian authorities’s demand of Canada to considerably scale back its diplomatic presence in India,” US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said.

“We don’t agree with the selections taken by the Indian authorities which have resulted in plenty of Canadian diplomats departing India,” a spokesperson for Britain’s Foreign Office said.

With inputs from Reuters, ANI