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Kigali — Federal The 56 members made a broad commitment to tackle climate change and promote trade on Saturday, the end of the summit aimed at highlighting the relevance of groups evolving from the British Empire.
Clubs that cover about 2.5 billion people, or about one-third of the world's population, have shown themselves as a network for cooperating with common goals, but critics say concrete. Take a good action and be a chatter.
The week-long summit in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, included comments on Friday by Prince Charles of the United Kingdom expressing sadness in his role in the Atlantic slave trade.
Some members urged the organization to move further by discussing reparations for countries affected by the Atlantic slave trade.
The final communiqué and press conference did not mention this topic, but instead focused on the Declaration on Sustainable Development, Healthcare and Gender Equality.
The "Living Lands Charter" Charter states that Commonwealth countries will work to implement previously signed international agreements such as the Paris Agreement.
"We know that when it comes to climate change, we are red and we are facing a crisis where small member states may exist." Patricia Scotland, re-elected as Chancellor of Switzerland during the summit-generally told reporters.
Scotland also touted increased trade between federal member states, reaching $ 2 trillion annually by 2030 after collapsing during the COVID-19 pandemic. She said she was predicting.
Gabon and Togo have been newly accepted by the Commonwealth. This is part of Africa's former French colonial trend for a new alliance that transcends Paris' old network of influence.
"If the Federation was alive, lively and unconstructive, why would a country such as Gabon ... or Togo join?" Gabon Foreign Minister Michael Mussa Adamo said Reuters. Told to.
Human rights
I was almost absent from the summit's public debate and had a wicked problem with the host country.
Many human rights groups consider Rwanda to be one of the most oppressive countries in Africa. The US State Department cites credible reports of arbitrary government killings, including politically motivated retaliatory killings abroad.
The neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo has accused Rwanda of supporting rebels conducting large-scale attacks in eastern Congo.
Rwanda has denied all these accusations. At a press conference, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame defended Rwanda's human rights records and accused the Western government of hypocrisy.
"No one in Rwanda should be in jail," he said. "In fact, there are people who aren't in jail and should be there."
According to British media, the asylum seeker, described by Prince Charles as "horrifying," is deported to Rwanda. Britain's controversial policy is also in the limelight. Both Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Kagame defended it. (Report by Ayenat Mersie, Written by Aaron Ross, Edited by Frank Jack Daniel)
