A TOP African scientist has been denied entry by Canada as a punishment, he claims, for opposing North American policy on genetically modified organisms. “I cannot find any other possible reason,” says Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, who is a leading architect of the UN Biosafety Protocol regulating GMOs and is also Ethiopia’s delegate to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
Tewolde planned to attend a UN-sponsored meeting related to the biosafety protocol in Montreal that began on Wednesday, where he intended to press for compulsory labelling of GM foods – a measure Canada opposes. The Canadian government denied…
