OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is off to India and China in the coming weeks, where she plans to take two distinct approaches to mending frayed ties with the world's two most populous countries.

"I do not think it is wise to group countries in one region of the world together, and certainly not those two countries," Anand told The Canadian Press.

"Our relationship with each of these countries is separate and we are approaching them very differently."

Anand spoke Monday after the United Nations General Assembly's high-level week in New York, where she spent several days meeting with foreign counterparts to define Canada's foreign policy.

Those meetings saw Anand distinguish the approach Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is taking to foreign policy from that of his p

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