Germany’s U.N. envoy, during his last scheduled U.N. Security Council meeting, appealed to China to free two detained Canadians for Christmas, prompting China’s deputy U.N.
envoy to respond: “Out of the bottom of my heart: Good riddance.”Germany finishes a two-year term on the 15-member council at the end of this month and Ambassador Christoph Heusgen plans to retire after more than 40 years as a diplomat.“Let me end my tenure on the Security Council by appealing to my Chinese colleagues to ask Beijing for the release of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.
Christmas is the right moment for such a gesture,” Heusgen told the council session, whose official agenda topic was Iran. Trudeau says he hopes for good news for two Michaels before the.