OTTAWA, Jan 7 (Reuters) - It's too early to debate how a lot compensation to pay relations of thes
OTTAWA, Jan 7 (Reuters) – It’s too early to debate how a lot compensation to pay relations of these killed when Iran shot down an airliner final yr, though Tehran has advised an quantity, a Canadian adviser stated on Thursday.
Lots of the victims have been Canadian residents or everlasting residents of Canada. Final month Iran’s cupboard allotted $150,000 for every household of the 176 individuals who died when Revolutionary Guards downed the Ukraine Worldwide Airways airplane close to Tehran on Jan 8, 2020.
Former Canadian cupboard minister Ralph Goodale, charged with serving to the victims’ households, stated the quantity of compensation might solely be agreed at particular talks between Iran and the 5 nations whose residents had died.
“Their floating of a quantity is approach, approach untimely … they don’t get to find out what the extent of that compensation is,” Goodale stated by telephone, including there was no settlement on the place and when the talks would happen.
Goodale declined to say what the suitable quantity must be, noting authorized specialists had speculated it might considerably exceed $150,000.
“There’s monumental work but to be executed on how a lot” Iran ought to pay, he stated.
Final month Goodale stated Iran was not conducting its investigation into what occurred correctly.
(Reporting by David Ljunggren; enhancing by Grant McCool)
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