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‘Good riddance,’ says China as Germany exits UN Security Council
“Good riddance, Ambassador Heusgen.” That is what China’s deputy United Nations envoy, Geng Shuang, said to Germany’s ambassador as the latter completed a two-year term on the UN Security Council. The blunt remark came during Germany’s Christoph Heusgen’s last scheduled meeting on Tuesday after he appealed to China to release two detained Canadians around Christmas. Here are more details.