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The Guardian - UK
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Amelia Gentleman

Barbados PM says country owed $4.9tn as she makes fresh call for reparations

Mia Mottley with King Charles at Cop26 in Glasgow in 2021.
Mia Mottley with King Charles at Cop26 in Glasgow in 2021. Photograph: Getty Images

King Charles’s comment that the “time has come” to acknowledge the enduring impact of slavery has been welcomed by the prime minister of Barbados as she spoke in London about the need for reparations.

Mia Mottley said Barbados was owed $4.9tn (£3.9tn) by slave-owning nations, noting that conversations over how this debt should be repaid would “be difficult and will take time”, she said on Wednesday evening.

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