22nd CHOGM commences today

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The 22nd Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting will begin at the Conference and Exhibition Centre in Perth, Australia today under the theme of ‘Building National and Global Resilience’. Queen Elisabeth the 2nd will be the chief guest of the inaugural ceremony. The Heads of 54 states and delegates comprising around 3,000 will attend the meeting which will be chaired by Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

They will discuss a wide range of issues including global warming, food security, sustainable development and many other challenges that have occurred at local and international level. The leaders will also focus attention on the financial recession currently faced by many countries in the world.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard will be appointed as the chairperson of the Commonwealth organisation at the meeting. She will hold the position till the next commonwealth summit which is to be held in Sri Lanka in 2013. (JNW news)

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buffaloa citizen Friday, 28 October 2011 04:03 AM

Countries having serious accusations of war crimes need to clear such accusations or at least make moves towards such reconciliation, something unfortunately the GOSL lacks. Thus it needs to be given a clear signal on this issue.

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Wara Friday, 28 October 2011 04:36 AM

What was the wrong done by GOSL ? Is is save 300,000 from LTTE clutches, is it feed them about one year till they were given shelter ? is it giving vocational traning and rehabilitate former LTTE carders in thousands? If actually our army killed so called 40,000 people why didn't US spy jets didn't monitor them (they were closely monitoring us on those days)

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saman athauda Friday, 28 October 2011 05:00 AM

dont get panicked. media search for news. this is an extraction from indian media. kiyana tharan yaka kalu ne.

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