Thursday, June 07, 2012
"Canada quits UN agency over Mugabe appointment"
CBCnews.com is the originator of this NewsDay story:
"Canada is withdrawing from the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) over the appointment of President Robert Mugabe as a special tourism ambassador. Canada’s Foreign Affairs minister John Baird said Mugabe’s appointment as international tourism ambassador symbolised what was wrong with the UN. Mugabe is currently under a European Union travel ban because of human rights abuses in his own country."
