The comments were “deeply disappointing,” Winston Peters Minister’s External Minister, adding: “They do not represent the positions of the NZ government and make their position of the High Commissioner in London.”
Peters later said that he would release Goff if he made the same remarks about any other world leader.
“Seriously sad,” Peters told reporters.
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Goff, former Foreign Minister, has compared recent peacekeeping efforts in Ukraine with a 1938 Contracting Agreement. Year – a pact between the European powers that the Nazi Germany has enabled the annex of the Czechoslovakian parts. That policy was later recognized as mitigating a certain aggressor and state as a difficult failure of the foreign policy that led to World War II.
Some expressed fear that Mr. Trump could push Ukraine to accept the peace bank where Russia is allowed to hold for recorded territories.
“I read Churchil’s speech again at the House of Common in 1938. years after Munich’s contract,” Goff said in London’s house Chatham this week, about the famous war leader. “He turned (then Prime Minister Neville) Chamberlain and said, ‘You had a choice between war and unwanted. You chose not wanting, but you will have war’.
“President Trump renovated the bust Churchill in an oval office, but do you think he really understands history?” Goff asked.
The United States has a “paused” exchange of intelligence with Ukraine after the dramatic break in Kyiv and the White House.
Mr. Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy had the public that failed in the oval office last week, followed by the United States that suspenses key military assistance in Ukraine.
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