The foreign secretary tells the BBC he wants to focus on the future and not the past.
Diplomatic correspondent
The boy is there to represent Africa or rather - in the words of the now long-forgotten artist, Sigismund Goetze - "our obligations and possibilities in the dark continent".Next to me is Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, who is telling me how relaxed he is about the image, just down the corridor from his office.
"If anyone had a right to feel maybe insulted or upset, I think it might be me, but it doesn't worry me because we have got other fish to fry." These are the African countries which might have failed to back the West's defence of Ukraine in crucial United Nations votes. Countries which believe developed nations failed to support them sufficiently over Covid and climate change. Nations which perhaps look more to China and Russia for their investment and security.
The idea, though, is about trying to find a new form of diplomatic and economic engagement based on mutual benefit, even if the detail - for now - has yet to be fully thought through. "We recognise now there is a global competition of ideas," he said. "So we really have got to have a willingness to sell our ideas and why the values that underpin our democracy are the values of our partners as well."
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