Foreign Affairs Minister M├йlanie Joly┬аsays Canadian Armed Forces veteran David Lavery┬аis ‘safe’ in Qatar┬атАФ months after a network that supports vets expressed concern that Lavery went missing in Afghanistan and was possibly detained by the Taliban government.
Veterans’ group said in November that Lavery went missing in Afghanistan
Foreign Affairs Minister M├йlanie Joly┬аsays Canadian Armed Forces veteran David Lavery┬аis “safe” in Qatar┬атАФ months after a network that supports vets expressed concern that Lavery went missing in Afghanistan and was possibly detained by the Taliban government.
In a social media post, Joly┬аsaid she “just spoke with David Lavery upon his safe arrival in Qatar from Afghanistan. He is in good spirits.”
Joly also thanked Qatar’s Minister of Foreign Affairs┬аMohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, for “helping facilitate the release of our Canadian citizen.”
I just spoke with David Lavery upon his safe arrival in Qatar from Afghanistan. He is in good spirits. <br><br>Thank you to my Qatari counterpart, <a href=”https://twitter.com/MBA_AlThani_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@MBA_AlThani_</a>, for helping facilitate the release of our Canadian citizen.
—@melaniejoly
In November, the Veterans Transition Network said they were “deeply concerned about the well-being of David Lavery, known to all those he helped as ‘Canadian Dave.'”
The network’s statement said Lavery disappeared from the Kabul airport on Nov. 11, 2024.
Since before the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, Lavery had been working to provide aid and assistance to eligible Afghan migrants. The Veterans Transition Network noted in November┬аthat Lavery repeatedly travelled to Afghanistan for humanitarian work, and to lay wreaths at the Canadian monument in Kabul on Remembrance Day.
CBC News has reached out to Global Affairs Canada for additional information.
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