The Commonwealth in troubling times and the controversy surrounding Sri Lanka
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| Sir Ronald Sanders KCMG AM is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and a former Caribbean diplomat |
''If the Summit in Sri Lanka is to be meaningful, Heads of Government must set up machinery to address this issue urgently and credibly. It will call for careful diplomatic stage-managing by the Secretary-General, and transparent and open chairmanship by the Sri Lankan President. Whether this can be achieved is left to be seen. But, if this matter is not tackled with urgency and credibility, the Commonwealth may well go over the cliff to disintegration on which it is now dangerously perched.''
By Sir Ronald Sanders KCMG AM-
I congratulate the Bristol Commonwealth Society as it celebrates the 100th anniversary of its Charter.
The Society has maintained belief in the Commonwealth from its early status as a grouping of Britain and its dominions through its re-birth as the modern Commonwealth of Nations in 1949 to the present.
