OTTAWA — Despite the daunting hurdles posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Iran must live up to its pledge to co-operate with the investigation into its downing of a commercial airliner in January, says Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne.
That includes the unfulfilled, two-week-old promise by Tehran to surrender the flight recorders of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, which the Iranian military shot down on Jan.
8. All 176 people aboard were killed, including 55 passengers who were Canadian citizens and 30 who were permanent residents.
In separate interviews with The Canadian Press, Champagne and Andriy Shevchenko, the Ukrainian ambassador to Canada, said the black boxes have not been sent to Kyiv as Iran had pledged.