JOHANNESBURG: Canada will resume trade discussions with the United States “when it’s appropriate,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Sunday, noting he did not have a pressing issue to address with President Donald Trump.
Trump last month suspended the talks over an anti-tariff advertisement issued by Ontario’s provincial government.
“We are very busy with the future of Canada, and with new partnerships. There will be conversations with the president, probably in the next two weeks,” Carney told reporters on the sidelines of the G20 leaders’ meeting in Johannesburg. “We will re-engage when it’s appropriate.”
Carney reiterated that he was open to dialogue.
“I don’t have a burning issue to speak with the president about right now. When America wants to come back and have the discussions on the trade side, we will have those discussions.”
Canada wants a deal to lower import tariffs on steel, aluminum and autos imposed by Trump.
Canada says it will resume US trade talks ‘when appropriate’
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Canada says it will resume US trade talks ‘when appropriate’
- Trump last month suspended the talks over an anti-tariff advertisement issued by Ontario’s provincial government
Amnesty urges Burkina junta not to reinstate death penalty
- Amnesty’s regional director Marceau Sivieude said the military must “immediately halt” its plans “regardless of the nature of the offenses or crimes committed”
ABIDJAN: Amnesty International on Friday urged Burkina Faso’s military junta to scrap its plan to reinstate the death penalty seven years after its abolition.
The junta’s council of ministers adopted a draft law on Thursday aimed at reinstating the punishment for crimes including high treason, terrorism and espionage.
Amnesty’s regional director Marceau Sivieude said the military must “immediately halt” its plans “regardless of the nature of the offenses or crimes committed.”
“Countries that still retain the death penalty are an isolated minority as the world continues to move away from this cruel punishment,” he told AFP in a statement.
He added that the proposal if approved would “set Burkina Faso against the goal of abolition” enshrined in international law.
The last recorded execution was in 1988, according to Amnesty.
The proposed text, which requires the approval of the transitional legislative assembly created by the junta, would also punish “the promotion and practice of homosexuality and related acts.”
