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Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting: Opening Ceremony: Pool cutaways camera; Part 4 of 5 RWANDA: Kigali: INT Boris Johnson MP (Prime Minister), Paul Kagame (President of Rwanda), Baroness Scotland (Patricia Scotland, Former Attorney General for England and Wales) and Prince Charles, Prince of Wales sitting on stage / Prince Charles along to podium / Prince Charles, Prince of Wales speech SOT (camera at an angle - for front on camera see host feed) / cutaways of people listening including Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Jeannette Kagame (wife of Rwandan President Paul Kagame) - On behalf of The Queen, in this Platinum Jubilee Year, my wife and I are delighted to be with you all here in Rwanda for this 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. I would particularly like to thank President Kagame, and the people of Rwanda, for the most impressive preparations they have made. I know how difficult the decisions were to postpone this important gathering as a result of Covid and can only applaud Rwanda’s determination and patience in ensuring our gathering is successful. Throughout her reign, The Queen has placed – and continues to place – the greatest importance on the common friendship, humanity and values that all of us share in this room, not despite but because of the diversity the Commonwealth represents. And I know how grateful she is that, in recognition of Her Majesty’s unstinting service to our Commonwealth Family, all Commonwealth Member States have announced that they have now committed themselves to The Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy. I treasure the friendships we have built over these past seventy years, and look forward to their deepening in the years ahead. As we build back from the pandemic that has devastated so many lives; as we respond to climate change and biodiversity loss that threatens our very existence; and as we see lives destroyed by the unattenuated aggression of violent forces… such friendships are more important ...