Canada and Ukraine are connected by deep and enduring people-to-people ties and growing commercial relations. The entry into force of the Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement (CUFTA) in 2017 marked another milestone in a partnership that has been creating prosperity for citizens of both countries since Canada became the first Western country to recognize Ukraine’s independence in 1991.
The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Honourable Jim Carr, Minister of International Trade Diversification, will host bilateral meetings with Mexico’s Secretary-designate of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrard and Secretary-designate for Economy, Graciela Marquéz, on October 22, 2018.
Together with a core group of international allies, Canada is working to resettle a group of White Helmets and their families after they had to flee Syria as a result of being specifically targeted by the Syrian regime and its backer, Russia.
We mourn the senseless death of Hauwa Mohammed Liman, a midwife working with the International Committee of the Red Cross, at the hands of Boko Haram. Ms. Liman’s murder comes one month after her ICRC colleague, Saifura Hussaini Ahmed Khorsa, was executed in similar circumstances. The two were abducted together with a third health worker, Alice Loksha, a nurse who worked in a centre supported by UNICEF.
This year, the theme of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is ‘Coming together with those furthest behind to build an inclusive world of universal respect for human rights and dignity.
Canada offers its deepest condolences and profound sympathy to the families and friends of the nearly two dozen teenagers killed and the dozens injured in the mass shooting and explosion at the Kerch Polytechnic College and hopes for a quick and full recovery of the injured victims.
“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, affirm our commitment to defending freedom of expression and protection of a free press.
The Honourable Jim Carr, Minister of International Trade Diversification, will deliver opening remarks at the opening reception of the 2018 Fortune Global Forum and will hold bilateral meetings with several stakeholders in Toronto, Ontario, on Monday, October 15, 2018.
The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will discuss the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement during an onstage interview at the 2018 Fortune Global Forum in Toronto, Ontario, on Tuesday, October 16, 2018.
