Sydney – New Zealand fired his highest diplomat in London after he made a « deeply disappointing » observation that questioned the understanding of President Trump in history, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs on Thursday. The High Commissioner of the United Kingdom, Phil Goff Invasion of Russia in Ukraine.
The comments were « deeply disappointed, » said a spokesman for New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters, adding: « They do not represent the opinions of the NZ government and they position its position as high commissioner in unsustainable London. »
Peters later said that he would have shot Goff if he did the same observations on any other world leader.
« It’s seriously unfortunate, » Peters told journalists.
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Goff, a former Foreign Affairs Minister, compared Ukraine’s recent peace efforts to the 1938 Munich Agreement: a pact between the European powers that allowed Nazi Germany to annex parts of Czechoslovakia. This policy would later be recognized as a result of a determined and quoted aggressor as a terrible failure of foreign policy caused by World War II.
Some have expressed the fear that Mr. Trump could push Ukraine to accept a peace agreement in which Russia will be allowed to keep in Swaths of captured territory.
« I re -read Churchill’s speech in the House of Commons in 1938 after the Munich Agreement, » Goff told the Chatham house in London this week, referring to the famous war leader. « He turned to (then Prime Minister Neville) Chamberlain and said, » You chose between the war and the dishonor. You chose dishonor but you will have the war. «
« President Trump has restored Churchill’s bust in the oval office, but do you think he really understands the story? » Asked Goff.
The United States has « stopped » the intelligence sharing with Ukraine after a dramatic breakdown of the relations between Kiev and the White House.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Mr. Trump and of Ukraine, had an audience falling to the Oval Office last week, followed by the United States that suspend crucial military help in Ukraine.
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