Canada urges EU to keep Hamas listed as terror group
18 December 2014, 00:32 CET
(OTTAWA) - Canada on Wednesday urged the European Union to keep Hamas listed as a banned terrorist group, after an EU court ordered it removed from a blacklist.
"We are deeply concerned by the decision of the EU General Court to annul, on procedural grounds, the measures against Hamas," Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said in a statement.
"We call on the EU to take the immediate remedial steps necessary to keep Hamas listed as a terrorist entity."
The EU said the court's ruling was based on a technicality and that it might appeal the decision.
Canada lists Hamas as a banned terrorist group.