54 African countries demand Trump to apologize for describing it as "scum"

in africa •  7 years ago 

The ambassadors of 54 African countries called on Friday for the United States President Donald Trump to apologize and retract statements that described their countries and other countries as "scum".

Trump tried to evade insulting statements attributed to him by the media, including offensive statements about immigration in which the countries of origin were described as "scum" in a meeting with bipartisan members of Congress, but US lawmakers attending the meeting publicly and in the media said he uttered these terms Abusively abusive.

After an emergency meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Ambassadors' Group said in a statement that it was "deeply shocked" and that it "condemns flagrant, racist and xenophobic remarks" by Donald Trump.

The Botswana Foreign Ministry summoned the US ambassador to voice the protest, calling the comments "absolutely irresponsible, indecent and racist."

She said in a statement that she asked the US government through its ambassador to "clarify" whether these derogatory statements also apply to Botswana because some of its citizens reside in the United States, and because there are others who wish to go to it.

A US State Department official said the Senegalese Foreign Ministry also summoned the US ambassador in Dakar and told him that he was upset.

"Given the historical reality of how African Americans get to the United States as slaves, and because the United States is the biggest example of a country that has been built by migration, such a suspension would be a very racist phenomenon," AU spokeswoman Iba Calundo said. Is particularly disturbing. "

The African Union mission in Washington expressed its "anger and disappointment" at the suspension and called for a retreat and apology.

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it is silly to take offense at the truth
it is better to be capable to draw the correct conclusions and decisions

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