President of the House of Representatives attends commemoration ceremony abolition slavery

On Sunday 1 July 2012, the President of the House of Representatives, ms Gerdi Verbeet, will attend the commemoration ceremony of the abolition of slavery in the former Dutch colonies.

On Sunday 1 July 2012, the President of the House of Representatives, ms Gerdi Verbeet, will attend the commemoration ceremony of the abolition of slavery in the former Dutch colonies. On behalf of the States-General, she will lay a wreath at the National Slavery monument.

On 1 July 1863, the Dutch government formally abolished slavery in the Netherlands and its former colonies. The commemoration ceremony of the abolition of slavery in the former Dutch colonies is a yearly event in Amsterdam's Oosterpark.