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	Commonwealth -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In 1965 the Commonwealth Secretariat was established in London to organize and coordinate Commonwealth…
		In 1965 the Commonwealth Secretariat was established in London to organize and coordinate Commonwealth activities.
		On December 25 the Soviet Union was succeeded by the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a loose confederation of 12 of the former...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9024980 (910 words)

	Commonwealth launches electronic network for schools - CENSE- News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This value was emphasised recently in Commonwealth fora, including the 13th Commonwealth Conference of Education Ministers in Botswana (July 1997) and the concurrent meeting of the Board of Governors of The Commonwealth of Learning (COL).
		All of these urged the Commonwealth Secretariat and COL to assist member countries to take advantage of the new opportunities provided by the revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs) by translating this potential value into practical reality.
		The Commonwealth Secretariat is an inter-governmental organisation, created by Commonwealth Heads of Government and established in London in 1965 to serve the needs of the 54 member states.
	www.col.org /newsrelease/9806cense.htm (677 words)

	The Commonwealth - The Commonwealth of Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Commonwealth is described as a "family" of nations, originally linked together in the British Empire, and now building on their common heritage in language, culture and education, which enables them to work together in an atmosphere of greater trust and understanding than generally prevails among nations.
		The Institute of Commonwealth Studies is a postgraduate academic institution devoted to the study of the Commonwealth.
		When the Commonwealth Games were staged for the fourth time in Canada in 1994, the event attracted 2,446 of the world’s top athletes from 63 nations (Commonwealth countries and associated states and territories), all of whom were competing for the honour of the Commonwealth Gold.
	www.col.org /comover.htm (1701 words)

	Press Conference, Commonwealth Secretariat, London - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It was the overwhelming finding of the Commonwealth Observer Group and that’s why we have this situation that the conclusion of that Group was that the election was fraudulent and in those circumstances we took the view that there should be a suspension pending responses to the things that we agreed upon.
		They were given a mandate by the last meeting at the Commonwealth, and that mandate was to deal with the Zimbabwe situation against the background of the Commonwealth Observer Group.
		In those circumstances, I will be arguing to the other members of the Commonwealth that we should simply preserve the status quo until December of this year when the matter can be thrashed out at a full meeting.
	www.pm.gov.au /News/interviews/Interview229.html (1893 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).
		At its foundation under the Statute of Westminster (see Westminster, Statutes of) in 1931, the Commonwealth was composed of Great Britain, the Irish Free State (now the Republic of Ireland), Canada, Newfoundland (since 1949 part of Canada), Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
		In 1965 a Commonwealth secretariat was established, with headquarters in London.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/CommonweNa.html (389 words)

	History of the Commonwealth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In 1911, the forerunner of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association was established, followed in 1913 by the Universities Bureau of the British Empire (now the Association of Commonwealth Universities).
		The Commonwealth's principled opposition to all forms of racism, and especially apartheid, led to the withdrawal of South Africa in 1961.
		For the Commonwealth, apart from the successful birth of Zimbabwe and the continuing struggle against apartheid in South Africa, the 1980s was the decade of Expert Group reports.
	www.chogm99.org /what/history1.htm (1351 words)

	DGOS - Thema's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Commonwealth’s commitment to the fundamental principle of equality and non-discrimination creates the need to develop public expenditure tracking systems to measure how consistent national decisions on resource allocation are with these and the other fundamental principles of the Commonwealth.
		The Commonwealth Secretariat has contributed to the development of this programme area through the development of analytical tools and frameworks, international advocacy and the building strategic partnerships.
		Commonwealth Finance Ministers at their meeting held in Malta in 2000, ‘reaffirmed the importance of the Commonwealth Secretariat’s programme on gender equality’.
	www.dgic.be /nl/themas/gender/speech_cox.html (1746 words)

	Encyclopedia: Commonwealth Secretariat
		Flag of the Commonwealth of Nations The Commonwealth of Nations is an association of independent sovereign states, most of which are former colonies once governed by the United Kingdom as part of the British Empire.
		The Commonwealth Secretary-General is the head of the Commonwealth Secretariat, the central body which has served the Commonwealth of Nations since its establishment in 1965.
		Queen Elizabeth II is recognised as Head of the Commonwealth in those members of the Commonwealth of Nations which are not Commonwealth realms and where, therefore, she is not head of state.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Commonwealth-Secretariat (404 words)

	Commonwealth Small States : Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Commonwealth Finance Ministers discussed small states issues at their meeting in Barbados, 18 to 20 September 2005.
		A consultation on Disaster Warnings and Response Systems, organised by the Commonwealth Secretariat and hosted by the Caribbean Emergency and Disaster Relief Agency, was held on 8 and 9 August, 2005 in Christ Church, Barbados.
		The Commonwealth Secretariat has forwarded to the Maldives a report prepared by a Disaster Relief Co-ordinator to help assess the country's needs and to co-ordinate relief and rehabilitation work.
	www.commonwealthsmallstates.org (979 words)

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		As Derek Ingram writes in his 1997 report on the Secretariat’s information program, “The greatest obstacle still to be overcome in the Commonwealth is the mind-set that the Commonwealth is a relic of empire, and that it remains a British Commonwealth.
		For most people the Commonwealth is a blur.” An article in Currents by Kim Campbell, after her short stint as Prime Minister of Canada in 1984 and after the Commonwealth Games had taken place in her own province of British Columbia, bears this out.
		It says of the Secretariat that “its staff and functions should be left to expand pragmatically in the light of experience, subject always to the approval of Governments”.
	www.rcs.ca /colloquium/Sanger.doc (4018 words)

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		The aim is to ensure that all Commonwealth governments have a common understanding of what may be at stake and appreciate the motives and purposes underlying the policies which each is separately pursuing.
		The Secretariat maintains archives on international issues, and prepares papers which present a combination of Commonwealth knowledge and views and offer to member governments the advantage of the wide range of vision which the Commonwealth affords.
		The headquarters of the Secretariat are in London, at Marlborough House, which was made available as a Commonwealth Centre by the Queen.
	www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu /~jfair/page80.html (872 words)

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		Commonwealth Secretariat offered Third Country Training Programme: "Advanced Seminar, Leading Strategic Change in the Public Sector" to be held in Wellington, New Zealand, from 21st Februry, 2005 -4th March, 2005
		Commonwealth Secretariat Third Country Training Programme on "Management of Coastal Recreational Tourism" - to be held in Malta, from 14 - 25 March, 2005
		Commonwealth Secretariat Third Country Training Programme on "Commonwealth Executive Programme in Public Management" to be held at Schlich Executive Centre (SEEC), York University, Toronto, Canada, from 30 May to 10 June, 2005
	finmin.nic.in /info_central_govt_employees/training_programmes/CommonwealthSecretariatShortTerm.html (305 words)

	The following outlines assistance available through the Commonwealth Secretariat set out in accordance with the design ...
		The Secretary-General of the Commonwealth presents his compliments to the Chairman of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1373 and has the honour to recall note SCA/20/01(8) inviting relevant information from organisations and agencies with respect to available assistance.
		The Secretariat is in the process of developing model legislative provisions for implementation of Security Council resolution 1373 and the FATF special recommendations on the Financing of Terrorism.
		The Secretariat is in the process of updating the existing kits and developing additional kits for the remainder of the United Nations Anti-terrorism conventions.
	www.un.org /Docs/sc/committees/1373/Commonwealth.htm (592 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Country profiles \| Profile: The Commonwealth
		Leader: Queen Elizabeth II As head of the Commonwealth, the Queen is recognised by its members as the "symbol of their free association".
		He is elected by heads of government from among Commonwealth diplomats and foreign ministers for a maximum of two four-year terms.
		Commonwealth Games 2002, held in Manchester, UK Unlike the United Nations, Commonwealth members have no contractual obligations, but members commit themselves to the statements of beliefs set out by heads of government.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/country_profiles/1554175.stm (698 words)

	The Director-General of UNESCO met with Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Secretariat: UNESCO
		The Director-General of UNESCO met with Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Secretariat: UNESCO
		He highlighted the recent steps being taken by the Commonwealth Secretariat to strengthen its educational work, especially in regard to primary and secondary education, through the Commonwealth Institute, now established within the University of Cambridge (UK) under the leadership of Professor Christopher Colclough (former Director of the EFA Global Monitoring Report team).
		Mr McKinnon also mentioned the work of the Commonwealth Secretariat in the area of education against the HIV/AIDS epidemic, including the youth-to-youth approach embodied in its “Ambassadors for Positive Living” initiative.
	portal.unesco.org /en/ev.php-URL_ID=25999&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (483 words)

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		It was attended by the representatives of the Commonwealth Secretariat, and delegates from the missions of Angola, Barbados, Cape Verde, Dominican Republic, Eastern Caribbean States, Gambia, Grenada, Guyana, Mauritius, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Zimbabwe.
		In his presentation, Dr Karunasekera, Commonwealth Secretariat, said that the Task Force emerged from the discussions of Commonwealth Heads of Government on small states issues at their Edinburgh summit meeting in 1997.
		From the Commonwealth’s side, the final version of the report of the Task Force will be presented to the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting in the Cayman Islands in September and to the Durban meeting of the Commonwealth Ministerial Group on Small States and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in November.
	www.antenna.nl /ecsiep/lome/vulacp.html (1796 words)

	Alibris: Commonwealth Secretariat
		This project on citizenship education in the Commonwealth, the Citizenship Education and Small States series, is one of the follow-up activities being undertaken by the Commonwealth Secretariat in response to a mandate from Commonwealth Heads of Government and Ministers of Education.
		Commonwealth Public Administration Reform is a comprehensive resource for all those in public and private sectors and civil society who are engaged in reforming public administration.
		It was endorsed by Heads of Government at their Summit in Durban in 1999 as the basis for pursuing concerted strategies based on "zero tolerance" for all types of corruption at national and global levels.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Commonwealth_Secretariat (1382 words)

	95-03-10: Statement by Commonwealth Secretariat, HE Chief Emeka Anyaoku (EN)
		At the individual national level, some Commonwealth countries, have demonstrated that given the necessary determination, ways can be found for significantly improving, even within very meagre resources, the wretched lot of some of the poorest of the poor within their societies.
		At the multilateral level, the activities of the Commonwealth in the area of this Summit's primary concern have been sketched out in the paper which the Commonwealth Secretariat has circulated.
		The Commonwealth also comprises a large number of the world's small developing states and these have great difficulty in achieving and sustaining social progress because of their narrow resource base and their vulnerability to a host of pressures, external and internal, including natural disasters and security threats.
	www.un.org /documents/ga/conf166/una/950310073433.htm (1015 words)

	CHRI: Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
		Other divisions of the Secretariat also has programmes that are directly related to human rights, such as the Gender Programme which promotes gender integration in the Secretariat's work and promotes women's rights as human rights.
		While the Commonwealth's definition of democracy includes not just the formal government structures and procedures, but also informal participants like civil society, in reality is the structures such as the judiciary and the public sector which have been the focus of assistance rather than civil society.
		The Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation is the Secretariat's main way to promote development and the alleviation of poverty in member countries, through the provision of technical assistance from one member country to another.
	www.humanrightsinitiative.org /cwhr/comsec/comsec.htm (632 words)

	Report - Commonwealth Secretariat
		The Secretariat's work on consensus building and policy development on international and national economic issues enables the Commonwealth to contribute to the development of international economic policies for creating a stable international economic environment within which sustained economic growth and development can be achieved.
		On debt, the Commonwealth has maintained a particularly active involvement in the resolution of the multilateral debt problem faced by heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs), through discussions and initiatives at Finance Ministers Meetings and technical work (a paper on the subject was circulated to the IMF and World Bank Executive Boards in February/March 1996).
		In 1993, an NGO desk was established in the Commonwealth Secretariat to serve as a focal point for co-ordinating the organisation's dealings with NGOs, specifically with those involved in economic and social development at the grass-roots level.
	www.un.org /esa/earthsummit/commonw.htm (4791 words)

	History of the Commonwealth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Commonwealth Secretariat is the principal organisation of the Commonwealth.
		The Commonwealth Secretariat is located at Marlborough House in London, close to the diplomatic missions of many Commonwealth countries.
		The Commonwealth Secretariat and its activities are supported by an assessed (or operating) budget and three specialised (or programme) funds.
	www.chogm99.org /what/comsec.htm (502 words)

	The Commonwealth Secretariat Strategies to Tackle Poverty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A Commonwealth body is revising its strategies to enable it work better as a channel by which people living in poverty can have direct links to governments and influence how poverty is tackled in their countries.
		The CCGHS, which was given official Commonwealth recognition about three years ago, was formed in partnership with the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Commonwealth Human Ecology Council (CHEC).
		It consists of ministers from Commonwealth countries who are concerned with the implementation of the UN-Habitat agenda.
	www.gm-unccd.org /FIELD/Multi/CFTC/OP_PR.htm (273 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Commonwealth ship idea ridiculed
		The Commonwealth is a loose association of primarily former British colonies and dependencies with historical ties to Britain.
		The Commonwealth is an organisation that does a great deal of good in promoting development and fighting poverty and discrimination, particularly in poorer countries and a new ship would certainly help it to achieve these goals in a greater capacity.
		This is the common problem with leadership: their wealthy privileged lifestyles are so far removed from the daily toils of the man in the street, that they cannot even begin to appreciate how much starvation and subsistence living is going on out here.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/3832589.stm (1249 words)

	Commonwealth Day
		In 1973 the National Council in Canada of the Royal Commonwealth Society in a letter to Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau suggested that the idea of Commonwealth Day to be observed simultaneously throughout the Commonwealth be included on the agenda for the Heads of Government Meeting to be held in Ottawa that year.
		At that time the heads of Government agreed that the Commonwealth Secretariat be asked to select a date for such an observance that would not have any untoward historical connotations.
		The celebration of Commonwealth Day entails no uniform manner of observance of Commonwealth Day upon member countries, it being left to each country to mark that day as it considers suitable.
	www.pch.gc.ca /progs/cpsc-ccsp/jfa-ha/commonwealth_e.cfm (246 words)

	The Commonwealth Secretariat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Commonwealth Secretariat, located in London, was established in 1965 to consolidate and co-ordinate the many strands of long-standing consultation and co-operation in education, law, science, economic development and other specialized fields.
		It is staffed by 275 people from Commonwealth countries and is financed by member governments under a system of assessed contributions.
		The Commonwealth Secretariat, located in London, was established in 1965 to consolidate and co-ordinate the many strands of long-standing consultation and co-operation — in education, law, science, economic statistics and other specialized fields.
	www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /foreign_policy/commonwealth/imoc304-en.asp (336 words)

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