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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Ap Correspondent

Canada and India name new ambassadors nearly year after top envoys expelled over diplomatic spat

India and Canada named new high commissioners to each other's capitals on Thursday as they restored relations 10 months after expelling the top envoys in a dispute over an alleged political assassination.

Foreign affairs minister Anita Anand said Christopher Cooter will be Canada’s new high commissioner to India. India’s foreign ministry said it will assign its current envoy to Spain, Dinesh Patnaik, to Ottawa “shortly”.

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