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COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS

•The Commonwealth is a diverse community of 53 nations(9 march 2018) More than 80 organisations that work together to promote prosperity, democracy and peace. It is home to a third of the world’s population and nearly 40% of its young people.
COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS IS NOT A GROUP OF FORMER BRITISH COLONIES NOTES
•The first member to be admitted without having any constitutional link to the British Empire or a Commonwealth member was Mozambique, a former Portuguese colony
•In 2009, Rwanda became the second Commonwealth member admitted not to have any such constitutional links. It was a Belgian trust territory that had been a German colony until World War I.
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• Her Majesty the Queen is the Head of the Commonwealth and attends the biennial
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
• • Head – Elizabeth II
• • Secretary-General – Patricia Scotland
• • Chair-in-Office – Joseph Muscat
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• The Queen is the ceremonial head of state and reigning constitutional monarch of only 16 members of the Commonwealth, known as Commonwealth realms.
• As of 2017, there are sixteen Commonwealth realms
• Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, The Bahamas, Tuvalu, and the United Kingdom.
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• Leaders of member countries shape Commonwealth policies and priorities. Every two years, they meet to discuss issues affecting the Commonwealth and the wider world at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).

COMMONWEALTH GAMES

• The Commonwealth Games is an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIGH COMMISSION, CONSULATE AND EMBASSY
An ambassador is the head of diplomatic mission United Nations or non-Commonwealth country in another United Nations countries while high commissioner is the head of diplomatic mission of aCommonwealth country in another Commonwealth country.
• The building or office of the high commissioner in a foreign country is known as “high commission” while office or building of ambassador in foreign country is known as an “embassy”.
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COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES
• Also called Russian Commonwealth
• After the Soviet Union dissolved there was a plan to maintain a loose Commonwealth structure for the former republics of the Soviet Union.
• At present the CIS unites: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.
MEMBERS BENEFITS
• Eight of the nine CIS member states participate in the CIS Free Trade Area
• Human rights
• CIS members, especially in Central Asia, continue to have among the world’s poorest human rights records.
•The Pacific Island nation of Nauru is the smallest Commonwealth country by population (10,000) and area (21km2).

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