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| | Commonwealth of Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Commonwealth of Nations, usually known as The Commonwealth, is an association of independent sovereign states, almost all of which are former territories of the British Empire. | | | Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has used the term frequently to allege that the Commonwealth's attempts to catalyse political changes in his country is motivated by racism and colonialist attitudes and that the White Commonwealth dominates the Commonwealth of Nations as a whole. | | | While some nations of the Commonwealth, known as Commonwealth Realms, recognize the same person who is the British Monarch as their separate head of state, the majority do not. |
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| | Commonwealth of Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Commonwealth of Nations is an association of independent sovereign states, almost all of which are former colonies once governed by the United Kingdom as part of the British Empire. | | | Map of the Commonwealth of Nations, formerly the British Commonwealth. | | | The two exceptions are Australia and The Bahamas, where 'Commonwealth' refers to the Australian federation and the Commonwealth of the Bahamas respectively, and 'Commonwealth of Nations' tends to be used instead. |
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| | Commonwealth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Commonwealth's membership includes both republics and monarchies and the (appointed, not hereditary) head of the Commonwealth of Nations is Queen Elizabeth II. | | | The Commonwealth of Nations is sometimes referred to as the New Commonwealth in a British context. | | | "Commonwealth" is also used in the U.S. to describe the political relationship between the United States and the overseas unincorporated territories of Puerto Rico and of the Northern Marianas. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Europe Country profiles Profile: The Commonwealth |
| | 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. | | | He is elected by heads of government from among Commonwealth diplomats and foreign ministers for a maximum of two four-year terms. | | | The secretary-general acts as the chief executive of the Commonwealth. |
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| | Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / Belize / Appendix B |
| | Any former British territory may seek Commonwealth membership, which is granted by unanimous consent of the members (see table A, Members of the Commonwealth of Nations). | | | The Commonwealth of Nations, more commonly known simply as the Commonwealth, is a voluntary association of independent sovereign states, including Britain and former British territories and existing territories of Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. | | | The fund is financed by all Commonwealth nations on a voluntary basis; the CFTC's governing body includes representatives of all its contributors. |
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| | ninemsn Encarta - Search View - Commonwealth of Nations |
| | With the outbreak of World War I in 1914 the usage was widely applied to the British Empire, as propagandized by Lionel Curtis in The British Commonwealth of Nations (1915). | | | These countries were accepted as continuing members of the latter even when they each subsequently adopted republican status (although the Irish Free State left what still smacked of a British Commonwealth of Nations when it became a full republic in 1949). | | | The ideal of British nations devoted to a common weal was assumed to have a special relevance to the self-governing dominions of Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa, and the United Kingdom; as white (or white-dominated) societies, the Commonwealth had a clear racial identity. |
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| | British Commonwealth of Nations |
| | The Commonwealth nations and their territories cover about a fourth of the earth’s land surface and have about a fourth of the world’s population. | | | The Commonwealth of Nations began to take form in the early 1900’s; this association of independent countries and their dependencies that have lived under British law government, includes Great Britain and about 35 nations. | | | They described these nations as equal in rank, “united by a common allegiance to the Crown and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations”. |
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| | Maldives Royal Family Official Website: Majid's Pages- Maldives and the British Commonwealth |
| | Upon gaining independence, His Majesty the Sultan's Government headed by the Prime Minister Ibrahim Nasir Rannabandeyri Kilegefan (N.G.I.V) declined to be part of the British Commonwealth of Nations because the Prime Minister considered it beneath the dignity of the Maldive Kingdom. | | | Two of his children, both now deceased, attended school in Great Britain before the Maldives became a member of the Commonwealth. | | | The Head of the Commonwealth is always the head of state of the United Kingdom and other countries, such as New Zealand, that share the head of state of the United Kingdom. |
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| | History of the Commonwealth |
| | First, leaders adopted the Singapore Declaration of Commonwealth Principles which gave the association a formal code of ethics, and committed members to improving human rights and seeking racial and economic justice. | | | 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. |
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| | British Irsralism-Justification for an Empire |
| | The British, Americans, and their offspring will cause a league of the Anglo-Saxon-Celt nations the world over, and they, haying the same languages, ideas, and ideals of justice and truth, and being God's chosen company or commonwealth of nations, will bring about what the Creator has ordained from the beginning--righteous peace. | | | Later Imperial exegetes would continue with the body of the text, identifying the "children" as the member states of the Empire and their complaint being heeded by the eventual foundation of the Commonwealth Nations. | | | The interpretation of "multitude", as "company", and finally as an "Empire of Nations" is characteristic of early Imperial interpretations, and an understanding which would eventually change as the Empire gave way to the Commonwealth in 1946. |
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| | British Commonwealth Members |
| | In 1931 the Statute of Westminster established the British Commonwealth of Nations; the adjective 'British' was deleted after WWII. | | | The 'Commonwealth' is a free association of independent nations formerly subject to British imperial government, and maintaining friendly and practical links with the UK. | | | Most of the states granted independence, beginning with India in 1947, chose to be members of the Commonwealth. |
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| | Commonwealth, the (British) |
| | On 15 May 1917 Jan Smuts, representing South Africa in the Imperial War Cabinet of World War I, suggested that ‘British Commonwealth of Nations’ was the right title for the British Empire. | | | The name was recognized in the Statute of Westminster in 1931, but after World War II a growing sense of independent nationhood led to the simplification of the title to the Commonwealth. | | | They are all regarded as ‘full members of the Commonwealth’; the newest member being Mozambique, which was admitted in November 1995. |
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| | Commonwealth of Nations on Encyclopedia.com |
| | COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS [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). | | | Peacekeeping, the United Nations, and the future role of the commonwealth. | | | Weather without you: by the end of this century, membership of the Commonwealth of Nations is expected to shrink. |
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| | The British Commonwealth of Nations (from Canada) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | The Commonwealth of Nations was the only worldwide political grouping of states besides the United Nations. | | | More from Britannica on "The British Commonwealth of Nations (from Canada)"... | | | More results on "The British Commonwealth of Nations (from Canada)" when you join. |
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| | Commonwealth of Nations |
| | The Commonwealth of Nations is a worldwide political organization of independent nations with their dependencies, all of which recognize the Queen Elizabeth II as head of the Commonwealth. | | | The Commonwealth of Nations is an evolving entity from the old British Empire. | | | The Commonwealth of Nations is listed on the Guinness Book of Records as the World's largest political alliance. |
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| | Commonwealth of Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Commonwealth of Nations, usually known as The Commonwealth, is an association of 53 independent sovereign states, almost all of which are former territories of the British Empire. | | | Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has used the term frequently to allege that the Commonwealth's attempts to catalyse political changes in his country is motivated by racism and colonialist attitudes and that the White Commonwealth dominates the Commonwealth of Nations as a whole. | | | While some nations of the Commonwealth, known as Commonwealth Realms, recognize the same person who is the British Monarch as their separate head of state, the majority do not. |
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| | Countries of the World: Caribbean Commonwealth: Appendix B. The Commonwealth of Nations@ HighBeam Research |
| | The Commonwealth of Nations, more commonly known simply as the Commonwealth, is a voluntary association of independent sovereign states, including Britain and former British territories. | | | Caribbean Commonwealth: Appendix B. The Commonwealth of Nations | | | Countries of the World: Caribbean Commonwealth: Appendix B. The Commonwealth of Nations@ HighBeam Research |
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| | British Commonwealth Games |
| | The British Commonwealth Games came about when the meeting of the British Empire and Commonwealth Games Federation during the XIII Games at Kingston (Jamaica), voted to drop the word "Empire" from the Games title, reflecting the continuing transformation of the old British Empire into a Commonwealth of independent nations and dominions. | | | Reflecting the transition from the old British Empire to the new British Commonwealth, the Tudor (or "Imperial") Crown in the Games Seal was replaced by the St. Edward's Crown, which Queen Elizabeth II had adopted after she assumed the throne. | | | The British Commonwealth Games Association of Canada donated the flag for it's first use in Edinburgh, 1970, at the IX British Commonwealth Games. |
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| | Antigua and Barbuda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The islands became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations on 1 November 1981, and Vere Bird became the first prime minister. | | | Antigua and Barbuda is a member of the Caribbean Community, United Nations, World Trade Organization, Commonwealth of Nations, Organization of American States, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, and the Eastern Caribbean's Regional Security System. | | | Antigua and Barbuda is a Commonwealth Realm and the head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who is represented in Antigua and Barbuda by a governor general. |
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| | United Press International: British Commonwealth re-admits Pakistan |
| | Formerly known as the British Commonwealth of Nations, the Commonwealth is a loose association of former British colonies, dependencies and other territories, as well as Mozambique, which has no historical ties to Britain, the news agency explained. | | | Published 5/22/2004 9:56 PM LONDON, May 22 (UPI) -- Pakistan is set to be re-admitted to Britain's Commonwealth five years after it was suspended because of a military coup, the BBC said Saturday. | | | The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group praised the progress President Pervez has made towards democracy since he seized power in 1999 from elected prime minister Nawaz Sharif. |
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| | ninemsn Encarta - Search View - Commonwealth of Nations |
| | These countries were accepted as continuing members of the latter even when they each subsequently adopted republican status (although the Irish Free State left what still smacked of a British Commonwealth of Nations when it became a full republic in 1949). | | | With the outbreak of World War I in 1914 the usage was widely applied to the British Empire, as propagandized by Lionel Curtis in The British Commonwealth of Nations (1915). | | | The ideal of British nations devoted to a common weal was assumed to have a special relevance to the self-governing dominions of Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa, and the United Kingdom; as white (or white-dominated) societies, the Commonwealth had a clear racial identity. |
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| | Barbados - tScholars.com |
| | After years of peaceful and democratic progress, Barbados became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations on November 30, 1966. | | | Barbados is an island nation located towards the east of the Caribbean Sea and in the west of the Atlantic Ocean, part of the eastern islands of the Lesser Antilles, with the nations of Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines being its closest neighbors. | | | In Barbados the Queen is styled "By the Grace of God, Queen of Barbados and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth." The present government is proposing that Barbados become a republic within the Commonwealth, with a ceremonial president replacing the Queen. |
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| | Peacekeeping Operations : a bibliography |
| | Note: Proceedings of a symposium of the John Bassett Moore Society of Inter- national Law on strengthening the United Nations, held Mar. 10-11, 1972 at the University of Virginia School of Law. | | | Governorþs Conference on the United Nations (5th: 1964: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee). | | | United Nations Association of the United States of America. |
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| | Family Members of Mine |
| | Anderson was a member of the first electoral college and a member of the Kentucky legislature. | | | In 1790 he was sent on a mission to the Creek and Cherokee nations and in 1791 served as an ensign and acting lieutenant on the expeditions under general Scott and Wilkinson against the native Americans on the Wabash. | | | Innes served on that court for its Kentucky cases with Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd, his younger cousin and protege, and continued as judge of the district court until his death. |
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| | Background Note: United Nations |
| | The US Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York is headed by the US Representative to the United Nations, with the rank of ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary. | | | The United Nations and its affiliated international organizations are especially important to member nations of the Third World who conduct much of their foreign policy there and rely heavily on these forums to advance their national interests and interact with other nations, including the United States. | | | The United Nations is expanding its work on behalf of women, not only to ensure their rights as individuals but also to stress the need for them to use their talents and abilities for progress on social issues. |
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| | Commonwealth - The Commonwealth: a partnership of Nations |
| | Commonwealth - The Commonwealth: a partnership of Nations | | | It was the Commonwealth which developed the idea of a "leaders' retreat", where Heads of Government can interact in a relaxed and informal environment, away from the presence of officials. | | | The Commonwealth is a unique forum for global diplomacy and joint decision-making, where the views of all members are listened to and no single country has the upper hand. |
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| | CIA - The World Factbook - Notes and Definitions |
| | Chief of state includes the name and title of the titular leader of the country who represents the state at official and ceremonial functions but may not be involved with the day-to-day activities of the government. | | | The US Government has diplomatic relations with 187 independent states, including 186 of the 191 UN members (excluded UN members are Bhutan, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and the US itself). | | | This entry lists major infectious diseases likely to be encountered in countries where the risk of such diseases is assessed to be very high as compared to the United States. |
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| | Family Members of Mine |
| | Innes joined the movement for immediate, unconditional separation from Virginia, and was a member of at least eight of the conventions held before statehood was achieved in 1792, as well as both of the first two constitutional conventions. | | | Anderson was a member of the first electoral college and a member of the Kentucky legislature. | | | In 1790 he was sent on a mission to the Creek and Cherokee nations and in 1791 served as an ensign and acting lieutenant on the expeditions under general Scott and Wilkinson against the native Americans on the Wabash. |
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