CANADIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER JOHN BAIRD
Credits: IAN KUCERAK/QMI AGENCY
OTTAWA - Canada condemns the fact Iran will lead a United Nations-sponsored disarmament committee and will express its displeasure by boycotting the forum for the five weeks Iran is in the chair.
"This makes a mockery of disarmament issues and the world's sincere desire to make progress," said Rick Roth, a spokesman for Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.
"In Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere, the regime is working directly against global disarmament goals and subverting the fundamental principles of this committee."
Geneva-based UN Watch said Iran is an outlaw state and already the target of UN sanctions for its nuclear program and other activities in the Middle East. "This is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women's shelter," said Hillel Neuer, the group's executive director.
Iran takes over leadership of the committee May 27 as part of a rotation among the committee's 65 members.
SUN NEWS
4:48 pm, May 13th, 2013
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2013/05/20130513-164859.html
"This makes a mockery of disarmament issues and the world's sincere desire to make progress," said Rick Roth, a spokesman for Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.
"In Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere, the regime is working directly against global disarmament goals and subverting the fundamental principles of this committee."
Geneva-based UN Watch said Iran is an outlaw state and already the target of UN sanctions for its nuclear program and other activities in the Middle East. "This is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women's shelter," said Hillel Neuer, the group's executive director.
Iran takes over leadership of the committee May 27 as part of a rotation among the committee's 65 members.
SUN NEWS
4:48 pm, May 13th, 2013
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2013/05/20130513-164859.html
