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New Zealand sacks ambassador to UK over remarks about President Trump. - AP
Phil Goff made these remarks in response to Trump restoring a bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval office, insinuating that Trump didn't understand Churchill or the history of WWII (which he doesn't.) It's also worth nothing that New Zealand is heavily reliant on international trade and sanctions could be devastating to their economy, which is more fragile than, say, Australia's
"Speaking to the media on Thursday, New Zealand’s foreign minister Winston Peters said it was “seriously regrettable” that he had been forced to act over Goff’s remarks and would have done so had he made them about any other nation’s leader. Peters said Goff’s comments were 'disappointing' and made the envoy’s position 'untenable.'
“'When you’re in that position, you represent the views of the government and the policies of the day – you’re not able to free-think, you are the face of New Zealand,' he said."
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