(Lanka-e-News-12.Nov.2013, 2.30PM) In 2011, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) accepted the offer by the Government of Sri Lanka to host the 2013 CHOGM in Colombo. This is the first time that Sri Lanka is hosting CHOGM even though on an earlier occasion in 1980, Sir Shridath Ramphal requested President J.R. Jayewardene to host the 1983 meeting in Colombo. 