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  • Interview with Sir John Major
  • Witness Seminar – Britain in the Commonwealth: The 1997 Edinburgh Commonwealth heads of Government meeting
  • Interview with Hon Alexander Downer
  • Interview with Abdul Minty
  • Interview with Billie Miller
  • Interview with Kamalesh Sharma
  • Interview with Dorienne Rowan-Campbell
  • Witness Seminar Participants, March 2014
  • Witness Seminar – The Commonwealth Secretariat, Economics and Development, and Global Politics
  • Commonwealth Diplomacy and the End of Apartheid. Anthony Law Commonwealth Lecture by former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans

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  • Interview with Sir John Major
  • Witness Seminar – Britain in the Commonwealth: The 1997 Edinburgh Commonwealth heads of Government meeting
  • Interview with Hon Alexander Downer
  • Interview with Abdul Minty
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Definitioner

NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. A military alliance formed in 1949, originally to defend Western Europe from the Soviet Union.
CMAG
Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group. Established by Commonwealth Heads of Government in 1995, the CMAG upholds the terms of the Harare Declaration.
CHOGM
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Every two years Commonwealth heads of government meet to discuss global and Commonwealth issues, with the aim of promoting common initiatives.
CARICOM
Caribbean Community. In 1972, Commonwealth Caribbean leaders at the Seventh Heads of Government Conference agreed to transform the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) into a Common Market and establish the Caribbean Community, of which the Common Market would be an integral part. The treaty establishing the Caribbean Community was signed at Chaguaramas on 4 July 1973.
ASEAN
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Formed in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a political and economic organization of Southeast Asian countries.
Apartheid
A system of legally enforced racial segregation implemented and upheld by the National Party in South Africa from 1948 – 1994
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