The Commonwealth in Malta

This November, Valletta will be the host of the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). The Commonwealth is an association based in London with 53 member countries representing around 30 per cent of the world's population. In an interview yesterday with Cameroon's English language newspaper The Post, Commonwealth Secretary-General, Don McKinnon, discusses the prospects for the Malta meeting. He also spoke about the Tsunami, African politics and his optimism for the future. From David Akana's interview with Don Mckinnon:

We will have our leaders meeting in Malta towards the end of this year. I believe the leaders would want to evaluate what has been achieved in the area of governance and building human capacities. Now that we have got new means of measuring a country's status in terms of its commitments to the Commonwealth, this gives us the chance through what we call Latimer House Guidelines to ensure that Commonwealth countries see themselves as having power divided between the executive, legislative and the judiciary.

Malta to host Commonwealth Leaders meeting - the Commonwealth Secretariat