OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that President Donald Trump made good on his pledge to raise the plight of the two Canadians imprisoned in China with President Xi Jinping.
Trudeau said Trump did raise the cases of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor with Xi during their meeting at the G20 leaders’ summit in Japan this past weekend, just as he pledged to do in their White House meeting last month.
“I can confirm now that Mr. Trump did speak to his Chinese counterpart about the detainees,” Trudeau told reporters at a transit announcement in Montreal.
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Source: National Newswatch