Wellington: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden on Tuesday refused to endorse President Donald Trump's racist tweets against non-white Democratic Congresswomen.
In an interview, Ardern said that she was proud that in her country, Parliament was meant to represent a range of different cultures and ethnicities, adding that never should a judgment be made about the origin of anyone and their right.
She further said, "We should celebrate our diversity, we do in New Zealand, I'm proud of that and so I take a very different view to President Trump."
Ardern joined a flurry of criticism within the US and by some international leaders directed at Donald Trump, who had tweeted on Sunday that the four Congresswomen – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley – should "go back" to the countries they came from and were not natural-born American citizens.
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