Racism in international politics

How can the leader of an entire country make such a statement? Not to mention that NONE of the major news organizations are covering it. What would happen if this situation was changed slightly, say with a different country’s leader that happened to be Caucasian, and the accused race changed to anything other than Caucasian.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ae4957e8-1a5f-11de-9f91-0000779fd2ac.html