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Canada not in the running for UN Security Council seat in 2014, Baird says
OTTAWA – The foreign affairs minister says Canada won’t run for a spot on the United Nations Security Council next year.
John Baird says Canada has other priorities — and notes it would be impossible to mount such a campaign in a matter of months.
In 2010, Canada was trounced by Portugal for the second of two temporary two-year, non-veto-wielding seats on the UN’s top body.
It was the first time in the six-decade history of the UN that Canada failed to win a seat for which it made a bid.
NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar pressed Baird on the issue Tuesday during a House of Commons committee hearing.
Dewar says with issues such as Syria and Iran on the table, he doesn’t understand why Baird doesn’t think it’s important to have a Security Council seat.
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