Papua New Guinea's foreign minister, Justin Tkatchenko, is facing an intense public backlash after he labeled critics of his daughter's ostentatious TikTok video from a taxpayer funded trip to the U.K. monarch's coronation as "primitive animals." The furor over Tkatchenko's comments, which were made to Australia's state broadcaster ABC, is happening less than two weeks ahead of U.K. President Joe Biden's stopover in Papua New Guinea to meet leaders of Pacific island countries. Tkatchenko's adult daughter Savannah accompanied him to the coronation of King Charles III in London last week and posted a TikTok video of their luxury travel, since deleted, which triggered criticism in Papua New Guinea where poverty is widespread. Tkatchenko said his daughter was "absolutely traumatized by these Primitive Animals." He added, "And I call them primitive animals because they are." The comments were perceived as racist in the Melanesian nation of more than

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