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This report, reproduced under the Fair Dealing provisions (§29) of the Copyright Act from today’s Globe and Mail, is distressing news:
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Former Canadian diplomat missing in Niger
CAMPBELL CLARK
Globe and Mail Update
December 15, 2008 at 3:11 PM EST
Prominent Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler has been reported missing in near Niamey in Niger, where the car he was travelling in was found last night, according to a UN spokesman.
Mr. Fowler, working as UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki-Moon's special envoy for Niger, was not been heard from since the car carrying Mr. Fowler, his Niger-based driver and a Canadian aide was found last night, about 45 kilometres northwest of the capital, Niamey, said UN spokesman Farhan Haq.
All three have not been heard from since, Mr. Haq said from UN headquarters in New York. The name of the other Canadian has not yet been released.
Mr. Fowler, a career foreign-service officer who has been Pierre Trudeau's foreign-policy adviser, Canada's ambassador to the United Nations, and Jean Chrétien's special representative to Africa, is one of Canada's most-respected and best-known diplomats.
“We are relying on the government of Niger, and the authorities in Niger, to locate these individuals. We don't have any further information on their whereabouts at this stage,” Mr. Haq said.
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Mr. Fowler was Deputy Minister of National Defence back in the ’80 and into the early '90s. He was intensely disliked by many because he was intrusive, to put it mildly, and was considerably smarter than about 99.9% of the other people in the building. Scott Taylor did a sloppy, less than well researched and generally ignorant hatchet job on him/his office renovations in Tarnished Brass but Mr. Fowler, being a gentleman, did not respond.
Mr. Fowler also served as Canada’s Ambassador to the UN and is, currently, a senior fellow at Ottawa U, affiliated with the Centre for International Policy Studies, where he sometimes makes time to discuss world affairs, strategy and defence policy with tired old soldiers.
Niger is, pretty much, the worst bloody place on earth. It is lawless, corrupt, dirty and dangerous.
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Former Canadian diplomat missing in Niger
CAMPBELL CLARK
Globe and Mail Update
December 15, 2008 at 3:11 PM EST
Prominent Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler has been reported missing in near Niamey in Niger, where the car he was travelling in was found last night, according to a UN spokesman.
Mr. Fowler, working as UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki-Moon's special envoy for Niger, was not been heard from since the car carrying Mr. Fowler, his Niger-based driver and a Canadian aide was found last night, about 45 kilometres northwest of the capital, Niamey, said UN spokesman Farhan Haq.
All three have not been heard from since, Mr. Haq said from UN headquarters in New York. The name of the other Canadian has not yet been released.
Mr. Fowler, a career foreign-service officer who has been Pierre Trudeau's foreign-policy adviser, Canada's ambassador to the United Nations, and Jean Chrétien's special representative to Africa, is one of Canada's most-respected and best-known diplomats.
“We are relying on the government of Niger, and the authorities in Niger, to locate these individuals. We don't have any further information on their whereabouts at this stage,” Mr. Haq said.
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Mr. Fowler was Deputy Minister of National Defence back in the ’80 and into the early '90s. He was intensely disliked by many because he was intrusive, to put it mildly, and was considerably smarter than about 99.9% of the other people in the building. Scott Taylor did a sloppy, less than well researched and generally ignorant hatchet job on him/his office renovations in Tarnished Brass but Mr. Fowler, being a gentleman, did not respond.
Mr. Fowler also served as Canada’s Ambassador to the UN and is, currently, a senior fellow at Ottawa U, affiliated with the Centre for International Policy Studies, where he sometimes makes time to discuss world affairs, strategy and defence policy with tired old soldiers.
Niger is, pretty much, the worst bloody place on earth. It is lawless, corrupt, dirty and dangerous.