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CBC News: Iranian official pushes back at Canada as Flight PS752 talks start

Published Oct. 20, 2020. Updated Oct. 20 at 2:23 am

Attendees lit 176 candles and lay red roses in front of Iran’s embassy in Kyiv on Feb. 17, 2020 at the commemoration event for the victims of the Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crash in Iran.

Photo by Oleg Petrasiuk

As a second round of talks gets underway between Ukraine and Iran on the destruction of Flight PS752, an Iranian official said today Canada has no part in the negotiations and called Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne “impolite.”