{"id":7822,"date":"2012-10-31T15:38:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/?p=7822"},"modified":"2012-11-08T14:23:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T14:23:47","slug":"foreign-ministers-agree-on-draft-commonwealth-charter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/2012\/10\/foreign-ministers-agree-on-draft-commonwealth-charter\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign ministers agree on draft Commonwealth charter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Commonwealth Foreign Ministers met in New York at the end of September on the margins of the 67th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. There, minis\u00adters agreed on a draft charter of the Com\u00admonwealth, which embraces its fundamen\u00adtal values, principles and aspirations.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The ministers agreed to all the remaining recommendations of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group, aimed at sharpening impact, strengthening networks and raising the Commonwealth&#8217;s profile. These recom\u00admendations, and the draft charter, will now go to Commonwealth leaders for approval.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The meeting produced traction on de\u00advelopments for a new Strategic Plan for the Commonwealth Secretariat, intended to help the Secretariat focus on its areas of comparative advantage in addressing contemporary challenges. Ministers also agreed on a range of measures to sup\u00adport the Commonwealth Ministerial Ac\u00adtion Group in its enhanced mandate and the Secretary-General&#8217;s &#8216;Good Offices for Peace&#8217; work.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Ministers were briefed by the Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka on preparations for the next Commonwealth Heads of Govern\u00adment Meeting to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka in November 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commonwealth Foreign Ministers met in New York at the end of September on the margins of the 67th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. There, minis\u00adters agreed on a draft charter of the Com\u00admonwealth, which embraces its fundamen\u00adtal values, principles and aspirations. The ministers agreed to all the remaining recommendations of the Commonwealth Eminent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[130,103,42,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7824,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7822\/revisions\/7824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}