Canada, Sweden pave way for compensation talks with Iran on downed plane
Mourners in Toronto light candles for the victims of Ukrainian Airlines flight 752 that crashed in Iran in January. – AFP pic, July 3, 2020.
CANADA today announced an agreement to launch negotiations with Iran on compensation for the families of the foreign victims of a Ukrainian passenger plane shot down in January, with Sweden expressing confidence Tehran would pay. An international “coordination and response group” of countries whose nationals died on the plane signed a memorandum of understanding, formally paving the way for negotiations with Tehran, according to a Canadian government statement.
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