Jaishankar at UNGA: Political convenience should not determine responses to extremism

Amid the ongoing India-Canada diplomatic row, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday addressed the UNGA at New York

The minister told UNGA, "In our deliberations, "The power of markets should not be utilised to steer food and energy from the needy to the wealthy. Nor must we countenance that political convenience determines responses to terrorism, extremism and violence. Similarly, respect for territorial integrity and non-interference in internal affairs cannot be exercises in cherry-picking. When reality departs from rhetoric, we must have the courage to call it out..."

His remarks appear to be directed at Canada whose Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently alleged the "potential" involvement of Indian agents in the killing of a Khalistani extremist leader on his country's soil on June 18 in British Columbia, a charge angrily rejected by New Delhi as "absurd" and "motivated".