BASIC DARK PRESENTATION

The Commonwealth

by Jan Paintner , Enrique Martin Lopez and Dominik Pletschacher

The Commonwealth Games :

History and Goals :

Government :

14. Sources

13. Disciplines

12. The Commonwealth Games

11. former Member States

10. Suspensions

9. other Member States

7. Commonwealth Goals

6. Background

5. History

4. Map

3. General Secretary

2. Hierarchy

8. Commonwealth Realms

1. What is the Commonwealth ?

Contents

What is The Commonwealth ?

• until 1947 "British Commonwealth of Nations"
• today Commonwealth of Nations
• a group of 53 member states
• 15 states share a personal union (Commonwealth realms)

Government

• Hierarchy
• General secretaries

Hierarchy

• head of the Commonwealth : Queen Elizabeth II. ( purely symbolic )
• secretary general ( Patricia Scotland , Baroness Scotland of Asthal ) : runs daily operations , elected by the heads of the member states
• a chairperson ( Boris Johnson ) : the host of the last member state meeting

Patricia Scotland

Don McKinnon

Shridath Ramphal

Kamalesh Sharma

Emeka Anyaoku

General Secretaries

Arnold Smith