Speaking points PM for December 19th on occasion of the Statements/Apologies PM Rutte: | SMN NEWS

markrutte19122022Dear people of Saint Martin, both South and North, our sisters and brothers in Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Suriname  - and to the indigenous people of this region and the people of the wider diasporas across the Caribbean and Atlantic Worlds; 

I address you today with mixed emotions and extend an invitation to openly dialogue on the ways to approach this abrupt and forced apology for ‘Slavery past’ by The Netherlands. This is a matter of historic proportions and a dialogue long overdue, which affects and emotes us all. Why mixed emotions, one may ask? Because on ...


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