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Blair 'sorry' for UK slavery role | Blair 'sorry' for UK slavery role |
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Tony Blair has said sorry for the slave trade, months after his statement of "deep sorrow" was criticised by some for stopping short of a full apology. | Tony Blair has said sorry for the slave trade, months after his statement of "deep sorrow" was criticised by some for stopping short of a full apology. |
"I have said we are sorry and I say it again," he said after talks with Ghanaian president John Agyekum Kufuor. | |
Britain had a "relationship of equals" with countries like Ghana, he said. | |
The most important thing was "to remember what happened in the past, to condemn it and say why it was entirely unacceptable," Mr Blair went on. | |
Some anti-slavery campaigners had said they wanted Mr Blair to go further ahead of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade, after his first statement in November. | |
His expression of "deep sorrow" for Britain's role in the slave trade was welcomed by some but criticised by others for not going far enough. | |
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