The Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade and Economic Development, today issued the following statement following the recent events between Canada and India: “Canada is a country founded on the rule of law, and protecting our citizens is our top priority. In light of the statement by the RCMP today, we are taking further necessary steps to ensure the safety of Canadians.
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The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement marking one year since Hamas’s terrorist attacks against Israel:
“Today we commemorate one year since Hamas’s horrific terrorist attack on October 7.
We, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of France, Mr. Jean-Noël Barrot, and of Canada, Ms. Mélanie Joly, reaffirm our strongest condemnation of the war of aggression waged by Russia against Ukraine in violation of international law.
Building on the Joint Declaration on the creation of the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children, issued on February 2, 2024, as well as on the productive dialogue during the 3rd Plenary Meeting of the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children, we, co-chairs Canada and Ukraine, reaffirm our unwavering commitment to address the problem of the deportation and forced transfer of Ukrainian children in the context of the ongoing armed conflict of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, which is in violation of international law.
As we mark two years since Russia’s illegal annexation of portions of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, we the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the High Representative of the European Union, stand firmly with Ukraine and its territorial integrity, sovereignty, independence.
Between September 27 and 29, 2024, the foreign ministers of Canada and the Nordic countries met in New York and Iqaluit, Nunavut, for the Canada-Nordic Strategic Dialogue.
The following joint statement was endorsed by the United States of America, Australia, Canada, the European Union, the Federated States of Micronesia, Finland, France, Japan, the Marshall Islands, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Tonga, Tuvalu, and the United Kingdom on the occasion of the 79th annual United National General Assembly:“Communications networks underpin almost every aspect of our lives. Yet the rapid development of communication technologies and massive scale of these networks increases our dependency on these systems and introduces vulnerabilities.
