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New Zealand has fired his highest envoy to the United Kingdom for the comments that questioned the history of US President Donald Trump.
In an event in London on Tuesday, the United Kingdom High Commissioner Phil Goff compared efforts to end the war between Russia and Ukraine with the 1938 Munich agreement, which allowed Adolf Hitler Annexar Czechoslovakia.
Goff recalled how Sir Winston Churchill had criticized the agreement, then said about the US leader: “President Trump has restored Churchill’s bust to the Oval office. But do you think the story really understands?”
Goff’s comments were “deeply disappointing” and made their “unsustainable” position, said New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters.
Goff’s comments occurred after Trump stopped Military Aid to Kyiv after a Exchanging to the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky In the Oval office last week.
Contrast Trump with Churchill, who, although he moved away from the British government, spoke against Munich’s agreement, since he saw him as a surrender to the threats of Nazi Germany.
Goff cited how Churchill had rebuked and then the United Kingdom Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain: “You had the option between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, but you will have war.”
Peters said Goff’s opinions did not represent those of the New Zealand government.
“When you are in that position, it represents the government and the policies of the day, you cannot think to free yourself, you are the face of New Zealand,” said Peters, the local media.
“It is not the way you behave like the front face of a country, diplomatically,” he said.
Goff had been high commissioner since January 2023. Before that, it served in several ministerial portfolios, including justice, foreign affairs and defense.
Former Minister Helen Clark criticized Goff’s dismissal, saying she was backed by a “very thin excuse.”
“I have been at the Munich Security Conference recently, where many draw parallels between the actions of Munich 1938 and the United States now,” he wrote in an X publication.
