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	Commonwealth Secretariat - 2005 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting: Final Communiqué (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Heads of Government noted that the holding by the same person of the offices of Head of State and Chief of Army Staff is incompatible with the basic principles of democracy and the spirit of the Harare Commonwealth principles.
		Heads of Government further expressed their deep concern at the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict by armed forces and groups and urged member states to take measures to ensure accountability by those responsible for abuse against children and to prohibit and criminalise such practices and assist those affected children.
		Heads of Government urged member countries to conduct open, transparent and inclusive negotiations to be completed as soon as possible during the sixtieth session of the UN General Assembly with the aim of establishing the mandate, modalities, functions, size, composition, membership, working methods and procedures of the Council.
	www.thecommonwealth.org /document/147565/chogm_2005_final_communiqu.htm (6055 words)

	Amana Online
		Heads of Government welcomed the continuing progress in the development and growth of democratic institutions in Pakistan, as evident by the election of the National Assembly, the Senate and Provincial Assemblies, and the formation of democratic governments at the national and provincial levels.
		Heads of Government expressed satisfaction at the recent meeting between the Foreign Ministers of Guyana and Venezuela with the UN Secretary-General noting that it was a positive indication of the continued commitment by both Guyana and Venezuela to discussions under the aegis of the UN Secretary-General aimed at the peaceful solution of the controversy.
		Heads of Government noted further that terrorism and its consequences had placed additional burdens on small states in the form of high costs of security and possible loss of tourism revenue, including the impact on their national budgets in the form of diversion of funds away from the critical areas of development.
	www.amanaonline.com /News/News_47.htm (3141 words)

	High Commissioner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Commonwealth of Nations, a High Commissioner is the senior diplomatic envoy of one Commonwealth Government to another.
		As many Commonwealth members share the same head of state ( Queen Elizabeth II), Commonwealth diplomatic relations are technically at a governmental level, and Commonwealth Governments thus do not appoint ambassadors, who are the representatives of one head of state to another.
		From as early as the 1930s, some Commonwealth members have indicated a preference for the title to be replaced with that of ambassador, but over the years whenever the issue has been raised a majority of members has been in favour of keeping the separate title and status of High Commissioner.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/High_Commissioner (714 words)

	CHOGM Statements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Heads of Government expressed their deep concern at the targeting of civilians, especially women and children, including recent attacks on humanitarian personnel, noting that these acts which violate international law are often undertaken with impunity.
		Heads of Government stressed that the Commonwealth should continue to be a driving force in international efforts to secure a lasting exit from debt for the poorest and most indebted countries in the world.
		Heads of Government recognised the importance for a large number of Commonwealth countries of ACP-EU negotiations on post-Lomé-IV arrangements, and urged during a transitional period that the historical benefits upon which ACP countries depend for access to EU markets be retained.
	www.chogm99.org /bulletin/s5.htm (3988 words)

	Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is a biennial meeting of the heads of government from all Commonwealth nations.
		The Commonwealth has grown increasingly large in recent years (it now has over 40 members) and as a result is becoming an increasingly difficult forum to establish any sort of political consensus in.
		This is unpopular with non-African member states, who resent the exclusion of discussing the affairs of their regions, but also with the African states themselves, many of whom view still view the Commonwealth as a neo-colonial, organization dominated by a " White Commonwealth ".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting (412 words)

	Commonwealth Secretariat - 1997 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting: The Edinburgh Communiqué (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Heads of Government reaffirmed their commitment to the fundamental values of the Commonwealth, as set out in the Harare Commonwealth Declaration of 1991 and emphasised that democracy, good governance, sustainable development and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms were interdependent and mutually reinforcing.
		Heads of Government observed that the continued existence of a military government in Nigeria was a prime source of Commonwealth concern.
		Heads of Government strongly condemned the military coup in Sierra Leone in May 1997, which resulted in the unconstitutional overthrow of its democratically-elected government, and called for the immediate reinstatement of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, whom they welcomed to their Meeting.
	www.thecommonwealth.org /document/34293/35232/37061/chogm97communique.htm (2100 words)

	General News of Tuesday, 9 December 2003
		26 Heads of Government expressed satisfaction at the recent meeting between the foreign Ministers of Guyana and Venezuela with the UN Secretary-General noting that it was a positive indication of the continued commitment by both Guyana and Venezuela to discussions under the aegis of the UN Secretary-General aimed at the peaceful solution of the controversy.
		Heads of Government recognized that travel advisories associated with the threat of terrorism have a negative impact on the economies of a number of member states, including the loss of tourism revenue and the burden of increased costs of implementing new security measures.
		Heads of Government commended the Commonwealth Secretariat for the work done on small states, particularly in implementing the recommendations of the 2000 Commonwealth Secretariat/World Bank Joint Task Force on Small States and the new Agenda for Commonwealth Work on small states, which was endorsed by them at their last meeting in Coolum in 2002.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=48015 (3774 words)

	The Royal Commonwealth Society
		They are reflected in the decisions by Commonwealth Heads of Government and their ministers who meet regularly, and in the activities of the various Commonwealth organisations and agencies.
		Governments, Commonwealth organisations and schools participate in events to pay tribute to this special partnership of nations and peoples and the ideals they hold in common.
		Commonwealth countries work together to improve the quality of life of their citizens and to build a better world.
	www.commonwealthday.com /commonwealth/?oa=138 (681 words)

	myUganda - About Uganda > Quick Facts > CHOGM \| Uganda's Information Portal
		The commitment of all Commonwealth countries to adhere to the Principles embodied in the Harare Declaration and the need to address the issues raised in the Marlborough House Statement of 19 March 2002.
		Heads of Government affirmed the Commonwealth's commitment to encourage and assist the process of national reconciliation.
		Heads of Government mandated the Chairperson-in-Office, assisted by the Commonwealth Secretary-General, to engage with the parties concerned to encourage and facilitate continued progress and the return of Zimbabwe to the Councils of the Commonwealth and, in this regard, express support for the intention of the Chairperson-in-Office to visit Zimbabwe at an early opportunity.
	www.myuganda.co.ug /quickstart/chogm2003.php (555 words)

	The Commonwealth - magazine - central - British Council - LearnEnglish
		The official Head of the Commonwealth, Queen Elizabeth II, celebrated her jubilee in May, the Commonwealth Games were held in Britain that summer, and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting was held in Australia that year.
		The Heads of Government Meeting is held every two years, where the leaders of the member states get together to discuss current issues, this year the meeting will be held from the 2nd to the 5th of March at Coolum, in Queensland, Australia.
		Commonwealth Day is held in the second week of March every year, where Commonwealth citizens, particularly children, have a chance to celebrate their friendship.
	www.britishcouncil.org /learnenglish-central-magazine-commonwealth.htm (578 words)

	Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Commonwealth and UN observers found Fiji's national elections in early September 200l to be free and fair.
		However, in the context of earlier measures taken by the government the COG was not persuaded of the overall fairness of the process and made a number of recommendations to the Secretary-General and the CMAG including continued engagement with the Government of Pakistan and offer of technical assistance to the appropriate authorities.
		Normally, a decision to suspend or expel a member from the Commonwealth rests with the Heads of government, except in a case where a democratically elected government is overthrown by a coup.
	www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /foreign_policy/commonwealth/imoc307-en.asp (2211 words)

	AllRefer.com - Commonwealth of Nations (International Organizations) - Encyclopedia
		Commonwealth of Nations, voluntary association of Great Britain and its dependencies, certain former British dependencies that are now sovereign states and their dependencies, and the associated states (states with full internal government but whose external relations are governed by Britain).
		Periodically there are meetings of Commonwealth heads of government, but no collective decision made at these meetings is considered binding.
		In 1965 a Commonwealth secretariat was established, with headquarters in London.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/CommonweNa.html (380 words)

	Prime Minister reports back on Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
		Heads of Government agreed on the need to accelerate progress to meet the Millennium Development Goals, which aim to halve the proportion of people living in poverty by 2015.
		Heads will revisit the issue in the light of that report, and take any decision on the lifting of the suspension by consensus.
		At this Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting a group of more than fifty countries came together to discuss the issues that matter most to their peoples - prosperity, security, sustainable development, the fight against terror - and agreed a common approach on all, in the interests of all.
	www.number-10.gov.uk /output/Page4961.asp (1218 words)

	Commonwealth heads of government to meet in Malta
		Commonwealth leaders accepted the offer from the Prime Minister of Malta to host the 2005 CHOGM at their last meeting in Abuja, Nigeria in December 2003.
		Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon said that the Commonwealth Secretariat was working closely with the Government of Malta to ensure a smooth and successful meeting.
		The Commonwealth of Nations is a voluntary association of governments and people of 53 independent countries around the world.
	www.di-ve.com /dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=148448&pid=null (449 words)

	Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 1997 - Bulletin item (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Recalling that at Millbrook, Heads of Government had agreed to strengthen the Secretariat's capacity for undertaking developmental work through support for its various funds, and especially by restoring the resources of the CFTC to their 1991/92 level in real terms, the Committee noted that the CFTC had accordingly undertaken progressively larger Plans of Expenditure (POE).
		The Committee welcomed the Report of the Commonwealth Foundation to Heads of Government, and reaffirmed support for the work of the Foundation with professional associations, non-governmental organisations and in the field of arts and culture.
		The Committee endorsed the decisions reached by Ministers of Education and urged that those Commonwealth governments which pledged support to COL in Botswana take immediate steps to implement their funding commitments to enable COL to fulfill its three-year action plan and to continue its service to the Commonwealth, and encouraged others to contribute.
	www.chogm97.org /htm/bulletin/day5/whole.htm (2164 words)

	Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings (CHOGM) - The Commonwealth and Australia - Australian Department of Foreign ...
		Commonwealth Leaders meet every two years in a different Commonwealth country to review global political and economic developments and to take a strategic overview of the Commonwealth’s work in support of its member countries’ interests.
		Commonwealth Leaders traditionally take the opportunity of their biennial meetings to review global political and economic developments and consider reports from the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group on the Harare Principles (CMAG) and the Ministerial Group on Small States.
		Commonwealth ministers from a range of portfolios meet between CHOGMs to consider specific issues relating to democracy, economics and development, women’s affairs, youth, legal issues, health and education.
	www.dfat.gov.au /intorgs/commonwealth/aus_comm_2.html (385 words)

	Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting: 29 Nov 2005: Written Ministerial Statements (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		The Commonwealth pledged its global influence to correct this and Heads committed to inject urgency into their negotiators at the WTO, encouraging them to be flexible and place priority on a genuinely development-oriented outcome for the round.
		Heads of Government also called for phased adjustment and other transitional measures to help vulnerable states, including small states and those traditionally dependent on preferential market access arrangements, to meet the trade and development challenges facing them.
		This was noted with particular reference to the impact on some Commonwealth members as a result of the liberalisation of the EU sugar regime.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /wms/?id=2005-11-29a.10WS.1 (762 words)

	Lords Hansard text for 28 Oct 1997 (171028-05)
		The warmth of the welcome she was given was a tribute to the regard in which she is held by Commonwealth Governments all over the world.
		This built on the valuable work of the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the Mauritius Commonwealth Finance Ministers' meeting and the target of ensuring that every highly indebted poor country is launched on the process of debt reduction by the year 2000.
		The Commonwealth has always been held to be important in the rhetoric of governments of both parties.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/ld199798/ldhansrd/vo971028/text/71028-05.htm (2290 words)

	Statement on the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, 2-5 March 2002, Brisbane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is anticipated that this year, Commonwealth Heads will also decide on a strong and visionary Declaration to emerge from their deliberations on the future role of the Commonwealth.
		The work of the Commonwealth in the area of small states and their problems regarding economic vulnerability and capacity building is of great value to the whole Commonwealth.
		Commonwealth Heads of State and Government will congratulate Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, in celebrating 50 years as Head of the Commonwealth.
	www.dfa.gov.za /docs/2002/chogm0228.htm (508 words)

	COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The heads of government will focus on the economic and social challenges of globalisation under the theme ‘People-Centred Development: the Challenge of Globalisation’.
		Because of its common language, and the shared democratic and institutional heritage of its members, the Commonwealth is especially well placed to assist developing member countries in strengthening their institutions and governance.
		After the Commonwealth meeting, I will travel to Pretoria to conduct an investiture ceremony marking the appointment of the former president of South Africa, Mr Mandela, as an Honorary Companion in the Order of Australia.
	www.pm.gov.au /News/media_releases/1999/chogm1011.htm (264 words)

	VictoryNews.Net \| Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, to be held in Brisbane, Australia, on 2nd October will be hosting 52 leaders of the world's Commonwealth Countries.
		CHOGM is a biennial summit at which each of the 54 Commonwealth countries is represented by its Head of Government or a senior Minister or official designated as its Head of Delegation.
		All member countries are expected to be represented at the Brisbane CHOGM at the Head of Government level.
	www.victorynews.net /CHOGM.htm (622 words)

	cda99214 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		H E President Mbeki, H E Chief Emeka Anyaoku (Commonwealth Secretary-General) and the Heads of State of Singapore and Trinidad and Tobago.
		The CHOGM meeting, and the NGO meetings which preceded it, were hosted by the South African Government, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Commonwealth Foundation.
		To address this situation, we request the Heads of Government to combine with others to call for the declarationof a Global State of Emergency on HIV/AIDS and call upon countries to double their efforts in addressing this problem.
	www.btinternet.com /~cdauk/news992/cda99214.htm (567 words)

	The Commonwealth Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Institute’s proposals for the establishment of the Centre for Commonwealth Education were presented to Commonwealth Ministers of Education at their triennial conference in Edinburgh in October 2003.
		The Committee therefore requested heads of government t consider the message from this conference and invited them to endorse the Edinburgh Action Plan which outlines the ways of closing the gap in access, inclusion and achievement in education in the Commonwealth.
		The Committee also invited heads of Government to welcome the decision of the Commonwealth Institute to establish a Centre for Commonwealth Education in partnership with Cambridge University as a new resource supporting the development of primary and secondary education across the commonwealth.
	www.commonwealth.org.uk /CentreForCE/background.htm (666 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 6 Mar 2002 (pt 4)
		That report broadens the remit of the Commonwealth's ministerial-level watchdog, the Commonwealth ministerial action group, beyond the overthrow of democratically elected governments so that it will in future be able to examine crises other than those provoked by a coup d'état.
		The Heads of Government also established a high-level expert group to report on globalisation to the 2003 Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Nigeria.
		However, the suggestion that the Commonwealth might in due course merely voice "collective disapproval" at the actions of the Zimbabwe Government is only the latest in a litany of laughable and inadequate responses that have too often let Mr.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200102/cmhansrd/vo020306/debtext/20306-04.htm (2129 words)

	Jubilee 2000: News: Commonwealth Heads of Government welcome call for G7 to meet in Africa to improve the HIPC debt ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leaders of Commonwealth countries, including President Obasanjo of Nigeria and President Muluzi of Malawi, have welcomed the Jubilee 2000 call for an extraordinary summit in Africa between G7 leaders and leaders of the Highly Indebted Countries.
		Governments in highly indebted nations are acutely aware of the continuing impact of debt on government budgets, but have been cautious in pushing for more debt relief.
		Outside the CHOGM meeting, Jubilee 2000 South Africa linked up with the Commonwealth Children's group and marched through the streets of Durban to call on the leaders of Third World Commonwealth countries to be more proactive in ending the debt slavery of the South.
	www.jubilee2000uk.org /jubilee2000/news/chogm1811.html (531 words)

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