Ottawa Names Payam Akhavan To Advise Global Affairs on Shootdown of Flight PS752

Ottawa Names Payam Akhavan To Advise Global Affairs on Shootdown of Flight PS752
Transport Minister Marc Garneau stands during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa, on May 25, 2020. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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OTTAWA—The federal government has named a legal expert as senior adviser to Global Affairs Canada on the shooting down of a passenger jet in Iran that killed 176 people.

The government says in a release that Payam Akhavan, Senior Fellow at Massey College and distinguished visiting professor at the University of Toronto, will provide advice on all matters pertaining to Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752.