Canada’s foreign minister Chrystia Freeland said during Wednesday evening, the canadian businessman Michael Spavor stated that he has been interrogated by the chinese authorities. Since then, the Freelands departments have not been able to get in touch with him for further information.
Spavor working with cultural exchanges in the chinese city of Dandong.
” We are working very hard to satisfy us about where he is and we have also taken up the issue with chinese authorities, said Freeland to the media during Wednesday evening.
Meng Wanzhou in the last week on the united states ‘ request. She is accused of having mörkat Huawei’s connection to the company Skycom, which, despite united states sanctions is believed to have tried to sell equipment to Iran.
China seized since the former canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig who was on a trip to the chinese capital.
– In this case, it is clear that China’s government wants to put maximum pressure on Kanades government, ” says Guy Saint-Jacques, canadian ambassador in Beijing.
on bail on Tuesday, canadian time.
Freeland calls on the united states not to politicize utlämningsfall after president Donald Trump said that he would be able to put himself in the justice department’s case against Meng Wanzhou, if it would serve the interests of national security or to facilitate a trade agreement with China.
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