Romania’s ambassador to Kenya has been recalled after comparing a monkey with Africans during a meeting in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.

Dragos Viorel Tigau was at a United Nations office in Nairobi on April 26 when a monkey appeared at the window of the conference room he was sitting in. “The African Group has joined us,” Tigau said, as recounted in a note from South Sudan’s embassy in Kenya.

“The African Group would like to condemn in strongest terms possible the insulting, racist and degrading utterances,” said Chol Ajong’o, South Sudan’s ambassador to Kenya.