Adds feedback by Canadian international minister OTTAWA, Ja
Adds feedback by Canadian international minister
OTTAWA, Jan 7 (Reuters) – It’s too early to debate how a lot compensation to pay family members of these killed when Iran shot down an airliner final 12 months, although Tehran has prompt an quantity, a Canadian adviser mentioned on Thursday.
Lots of the victims had 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, mentioned the quantity of compensation may solely be agreed at particular talks between Iran and the 5 nations whose residents had died.
“Their floating of a quantity is method, method untimely … they don’t get to find out what the extent of that compensation is,” Goodale mentioned by cellphone, including there was no settlement on the place and when the talks would happen.
Goodale declined to say what the suitable quantity needs to be, noting authorized consultants had speculated it may considerably exceed $150,000.
“There may be huge work but to be carried out on how a lot” Iran ought to pay, he mentioned.
Canadian Overseas Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne mentioned Iran had but to reply “many authentic questions” about how and why the airplane had been shot down.
“Reparations are extra than simply compensation,” he mentioned in a press release to Reuters, including Tehran had “nice duties for justice, transparency and accountability”.
(Reporting by David Ljunggren; modifying by Grant McCool)
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