UK Agrees to Hold Talks With Commonwealth on Its Slavery Legacy
- Caribbean nations called for discussions over reparations
- UK has repeatedly ruled out paying compensation for its past
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The UK agreed to hold talks about its historical involvement in the slave trade in a joint statement with other Commonwealth leaders in Samoa, but continued to rule out the prospect of financial reparations.
The 55 Commonwealth nations agreed to play an “active role” in holding conversations to address the “harms,” particularly women and girls who “suffered disproportionately from these appalling tragedies in the history of humanity,” in the communique published Saturday.