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Canada says it will boycott this year's CHOGM in Sri Lanka due to the government's human rights failures, but Bob Carr has adopted a serendipitous attitude to Sri Lanka. The reason, writes Bruce Haigh, is boats. In the face of a great deal of ...

The External Affairs Ministry is making arrangements to import 12 Rolls- Royce cars and 100 BMW cars for the use of the heads of state who are scheduled to visit Sri Lanka to participate in the 23rd Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in ...

British PM to attend Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka hits out at Canada India should boycott CHOGM: Karunanidhi Human Rights Watch calls for shifting CHOGM from Sri La... Colombo, May 15 (IANS) Sri Lanka will probe a controversial video ...

Union Shipping Minister G K Vasan today repeated his demand that Commonwealth conference should be moved out of Sri Lanka and India should be represented at the changed venue.

DMK president M. Karunanidhi Friday said India should not only boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) slated to be held in Sri Lanka later this year but also gather the support of other countries to prevent the summit from being held in ...

Papua New Guinea said that it would give it's support to the Sri Lankan government at the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canberra said. It said that Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe, the ...

The QC Geoffrey Robertson is one of a growing number calling for the leaders of Commonwealth countries to boycott the CHOGM heads of government meeting, planned for Colombo Sri Lanka, in November. He conducted a review of the process that led to the ...

The 23rd Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference (CHOGM) would be held as planned in Sri Lanka, despite opposition from some member states, allied organisations and rights groups. This was announced by the chairman of the Commonwealth ...

The federal government believes Sri Lanka should still host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) this year despite Canada calling for the event to be moved because of human rights concerns. Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird ...