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NB: This may not be a word-for-word transcript. His Majesty The King’s Remarks at the CHOGM Dinner in Samoa 25 October 2024 Ladies and Gentlemen, Talofa lava. Malo le soifua. My wife and I are so delighted to be able to host you for dinner this evening. However wet it may have been, I am told that I have been credited in Samoa with bringing these heavy rains (shades, perhaps of my father’s god-like status in Vanuatu)! Heralds, I can only hope, of a particularly good harvest! Now many of you have, I know, nobly travelled a very long way to be in Apia – often, by all accounts, via several different airlines and several different countries over many, many hours and time zones. But it is, of course, quite normal that our friends from this corner of the world travel great distances to attend international meetings. So perhaps it is only fair that they occasionally get a break from that. And I can only say, it will be interesting to see this evening who has the most success in battli
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