{"id":9576,"date":"2013-10-28T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/?p=9576"},"modified":"2013-11-14T12:04:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T12:04:22","slug":"gambia-exit-a-disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/2013\/10\/gambia-exit-a-disappointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambia exit &#8216;a disappointment&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma has expressed his regret at The Gambia&#8217;s October withdrawal from the Commonwealth.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">He said: &#8220;This separation from the people of The Gambia is a disappointment for the Commonwealth family at large&#8221;, adding that he looked forward to The Gambia&#8217;s return to the organisation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">A statement from The Gambia&#8217;s government on 2 October announced its departure. &#8220;The government has withdrawn its membership of the British Commonwealth and decided that The Gambia will never be a member of any neo-colonial institution and will never be a party to any institution that represents an extension of colonialism.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">No other reason was given, but a further statement on the government website two days later complained of a &#8220;relentless smear campaign&#8221; by &#8220;some Western powers&#8221;, claiming that other countries want access to its natural resources in return for unacceptably low royalties.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma has expressed his regret at The Gambia&#8217;s October withdrawal from the Commonwealth.\u00a0 He said: &#8220;This separation from the people of The Gambia is a disappointment for the Commonwealth family at large&#8221;, adding that he looked forward to The Gambia&#8217;s return to the organisation. \u00a0A statement from The Gambia&#8217;s government on 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[161,103,42,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9576"}],"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=9576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}