Robert Mugabe dozes off
during someone’s speech at a summit in Tripoli in 2010.
OTTAWA - Canada is withdrawing from the
United Nations World Tourism Office, a move it said was formalized this week
over the agency's recognition of Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe.
Foreign
Affairs Minister John Baird told the Commons Thursday the appointment of Mugabe
as an international tourism ambassador was what led to the withdrawal.
The UN
body, however, dismissed that reasoning, pointing out that it doesn't actually
have an ambassadorial program.
The UNWTO
said it gave an Open Letter on Travel and Tourism to the presidents of Zimbabwe
and Zambia on May 29, in recognition of a tripartite agreement with both
countries on the hosting of the 20th Session of the UN General Assembly in
Victoria Falls, which straddles the borders of both countries.
The Billy Butlin of tyre necklaces.
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