{"id":118271,"date":"2024-10-25T16:53:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T09:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118271"},"modified":"2024-10-25T16:53:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T09:53:05","slug":"king-charles-tells-summit-the-past-cant-be-changed-as-leaders-ask-britain-to-reckon-with-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118271","title":{"rendered":"King Charles tells summit the past can&#8217;t be changed as leaders ask Britain to reckon with slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) \u2014 King Charles III told a summit of Commonwealth countries in Samoa on Friday that the past could not be changed as he indirectly acknowledged <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/britain-commonwealth-summit-slavery-reparations-be23cf856970878f82a2a7237ccf3b62\">calls from some of Britain\u2019s former colonies<\/a><\/span> for a reckoning over its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.<\/p>\n<p>The British monarch told leaders in Apia that he understood \u201cthe most painful aspects of our past continue to resonate.\u201d But Charles stopped short of mentioning financial reparations that some leaders at the event have urged, and instead exhorted them to find the \u201cright language\u201d and an understanding of history \u201cto guide us towards making the right choices in future where inequality exists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of us can change the past but we can commit with all our hearts to learning its lessons and to finding creative ways to right the inequalities that endure,\u201d said Charles, who is <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/king-charles-samoa-chogm-commonwealth-britain-camilla-23e166fdddf6f8fbc4d57d7f29166e0f\">attending his first Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting<\/a><\/span>, or CHOGM, as Britain\u2019s head of state.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks at the summit\u2019s opening ceremony were an acknowledgement of the strength of feeling on the issue in countries that Britain once colonized.<\/p>\n<p>British Prime Minister Keir Starmer also struck an emollient tone, after earlier insisting that the meeting should avoid becoming mired in the past and \u201cvery, very long endless discussions about reparations.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Starmer said at the summit that it was important to acknowledge a \u201chard\u201d shared history, and that he understood the \u201cstrength of feeling here and that there are some calls to face up to the harms and injustices of the past through reparatory justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flanked by leaders from Uganda and Tanzania, Starmer said he wanted to work \u201ctogether to make sure the future is not in the shadow of the past,\u201d and promised to host a U.K.-Caribbean forum next year with leaders of the nations most impacted by slavery\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s handling of its involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade is seen by many observers as a litmus test for the Commonwealth\u2019s adaptation to a modern-day world. Other European nations and some British institutions have started to own up to their role in the trade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the time has come for this to be taken seriously,\u201d said Jacqueline McKenzie, a partner at London law firm Leigh Day. \u201cNobody expects people to pay every single penny for what happened. But I think there needs to be negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such a policy would be costly and divisive at home, McKenzie said. <\/p>\n<p>The U.K. has never formally apologized for its role in the trade, in which millions of African citizens were kidnapped and transported to plantations in the Caribbean and Americas over several centuries, enriching many individuals and companies. Studies estimate Britain would owe between hundreds of millions and trillions of dollars in compensation to descendants of slaves.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis on Thursday said he wanted a \u201cfrank\u201d discussion with Starmer about the matter and would seek mention of the reparations issue in the leaders\u2019 final statement at the event. All three candidates to be the next Commonwealth Secretary-General \u2014 from Gambia, Ghana and Lesotho \u2014 have endorsed policies of reparatory justice for slavery.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer said Thursday in remarks to reporters that the matter would not be on the summit\u2019s agenda. But Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland told The Associated Press in an interview that leaders \u201cwill speak about absolutely anything they want to speak about\u201d at an all-day private meeting scheduled for Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>King Charles said in Friday\u2019s speech that nothing would right inequality \u201cmore decisively than to champion the principle that our Commonwealth is one of genuine opportunity for all.\u201d The monarch urged leaders to \u201cchoose within our Commonwealth family the language of community and respect, and reject the language of division.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He has expressed \u201csorrow\u201d over slavery at a CHOGM summit before, in 2022, and <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/british-monarchy-slavery-slave-trade-king-charles-1964cdbc927f4c9ad21836cec137e911\">last year endorsed a probe<\/a><\/span> into the monarchy\u2019s ties to the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Charles \u2014 who is battling cancer \u2014 and his wife, Queen Camilla, will return to Britain after visiting Samoa and <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/australia-king-charles-republic-monarchy-2bdb86c1e7e492f4447288efd84c74ed\">Australia<\/a><\/span>, where his presence <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/australia-king-charles-lydia-thorpe-indigenous-e6c7be3f039d43b2710df6ab50c78bd6\">prompted a lawmaker\u2019s protest<\/a><\/span> over his country\u2019s colonial legacy. <\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged Friday that the Commonwealth had mattered \u201ca great deal\u201d to his late mother Queen Elizabeth II, who was seen as a unifying figure among the group\u2019s disparate and divergent states.<\/p>\n<p>The row over reparations threatened to overshadow a summit that Pacific leaders \u2014 and the Commonwealth secretariat \u2014 hoped would focus squarely on the ruinous effects of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are well past believing it is a problem for the future since it is already undermining the development we have long fought for,\u201d the king said Friday. \u201cThis year alone we have seen terrifying storms in the Caribbean, devastating flooding in East Africa and catastrophic wildfires in Canada. Lives, livelihood and human rights are at-risk across the Commonwealth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Charles offered \u201cevery encouragement for action with unequivocal determination to arrest rising temperatures\u201d by cutting emissions, building resilience, and conserving and restoring nature on land and at sea, he said. <\/p>\n<p>Samoa is the first Pacific Island nation to host the event, and Prime Minister Fiam\u0113 Naomi Mata\u2019afa said in a speech Friday that it was \u201ca great opportunity for all to experience our lived reality, especially with climate change,\u201d which was \u201cthe greatest threat to the survival and security of our Pacific people.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Two dozen small island nations are among the Commonwealth grouping\u2019s 56 member states, among them the world\u2019s most imperiled by rising seas. Her remarks came as the United Nations <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/climate-change-chaos-warming-15-pollution-carbon-832773cebb14b4ea8c8930580537e567\">released a stark new report<\/a><\/span> warning that the world was on pace for significantly more warming than expected without immediate climate action.<\/p>\n<p>The population of the member nations of the 75-year-old Commonwealth organization totals 2.7 billion people.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/king-charles-commonwealth-slavery-reparations-chogm-samoa-6488cbfb9367b81b8453ea6c6dc41cbd\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) \u2014 King Charles III told a summit of Commonwealth countries in Samoa on Friday that the past could not be changed as he indirectly acknowledged calls &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118271\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}