Canada welcomes the Gambia’s submission to the International Court of Justice of an application to institute proceedings against the Government of Myanmar for alleged violations of the Genocide Convention.
Canada strongly condemns the November 6 attack against a convoy of workers of the Canadian mining company SEMAFO and the security forces protecting them.
On this day, we remember all members of the media killed or harmed and all others who so courageously stand up for the media’s right to report freely and independently. Impunity for crimes against journalists must stop.
Bolivians deserve a free, fair and transparent election result. Canada is closely following events in Bolivia and calls on all parties to exercise restraint and avoid violence and polarizing rhetoric. We are deeply concerned by additional reports of serious election irregularities.
The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement on the recent release of Ukrainian political prisoners:
Canada welcomes the unanimous NAFTA Chapter 19 binational panel decision that there were insufficient grounds for the U.S. International Trade Commission to determine that Canadian softwood lumber products had materially injured the U.S. softwood industry.
The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Honourable Maryam Monsef, Minister of International Development and Minister for Women and Gender Equality, today issued the following statement regarding Hurricane Dorian:
Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United Sates of America do not recognize the legitimacy of the so-called ‘presidential elections’ held in Georgia’s Abkhazia region by the de facto authorities in Sokhumi on August 25, 2019, and will not acknowledge their outcome. Similarly, we do not recognize the legitimacy or outcome of the so-called ‘parliamentary elections’ held in Georgia’s South Ossetia/Tskhinvali region on June 9, 2019.
Twenty-eight years ago today, Canada became the first Western country to recognize the independence of Ukraine. In the almost three decades since, we have been proud to work closely with Ukraine on its journey to becoming a prosperous and vibrant democracy.