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Canada frozen out of anti-Daesh coalition talks
[Iran Press TV] Canada has not been invited to a ministerial meeting in the French capital this week to discuss the battle against the Daesh [Islamic State] Takfiri...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terror group. The meeting, which is planned to be held in Gay Paree on Wednesday, will host defense ministers from the Netherlands, La Belle France, Australia, Germany, Italia and the UK. US Defense Secretary Ash Carter did not mention Ottawa last week in a speech in Kentucky when he announced plans for holding talks with defense ministers from countries that are playing a significant role in the so-called US-led coalition that is allegedly targeting positions of Daesh [Islamic State] in Iraq and Syria. Canadian Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan, meanwhile, tried to play down the exclusion on Tuesday as he said the meeting would not be the only gathering over the issue. The meeting comes as Washington has urged coalition members to contribute more to the anti-Daesh [Islamic State] fight in Iraq and Syria after the deadly terrorist attack in Gay Paree in November claimed by Daesh [Islamic State]. This is while Canada's new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to withdraw the country's six fighter jets from the mission but said Ottawa would increase military training. Canada's opposition Conservative party has said in reaction to the exclusion that Ottawa "is deliberately being excluded because of this Liberal government's decision to withdraw our CF-18s from the mission against ISIS (Daesh [Islamic State])." Posted by: Fred 2016-01-20 |
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