Question: The 16th meeting of Canada-India Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism was held in?
(a) Toronto
(b) Ottawa
(c) Vancouver
(d) Montreal
Answer: (b)
Related Facts:
- India and Canada have concluded an agreement on a Joint Action Plan outlining activities to further strengthen counter-terrorism collaboration, including through joint capacity building, information and technology sharing.
- This Joint Action Plan was decided at the 16th meeting of the Canada-India Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism and its Expert Sub-group which was held in Ottawa from 26th March to 27th March, 2019.
- Global Affairs Canada’s Director General for the Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Intelligence Bureau, Martin Benjamin, and India’s Joint Secretary for Counter-Terrorism from the Ministry of External Affairs, Mahaveer Singhvi, led their delegations.
- The delegations discussed the reference for the first time to the threat from Khalistani extremism in Public Safety Canada’s 2018 Annual Report on Terrorism Threats in Canada.
- The Joint Working Group also discussed multilateral counter-terrorism cooperation, in the context of the United Nations, the Financial Action Task Force, and the Global Counterterrorism Forum.
- India offered to host the 17th meeting of the Joint Working Group and the third Expert Sub-group in 2020.