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Commonwealth Observer Groups
Commonwealth Observer Groups are groups formed to monitor elections in various countries around the world. Each group is usually made up of various statesmen from various countries in the Commonwealth of Nations. The job of each Group is to assess whether the elections are conducted fairly. At the end of the observation period, reports are written and submitted to the Commonwealth headquarters. The following are such groups formed to date: *Antigua and Barbuda *Bangladesh *Cameroon *Gambia *Ghana *Guyana *Fiji *Kenya *Lesotho *Malawi *Maldives *Malta *Mozambique *Nigeria *Pakistan *Papua New Guinea *Sierra Leone *South Africa *Sri Lanka *St Kitts and Nevis *Tanzania *Trinidad and Tobago *Uganda{{cite web , url=http://www.thecommonwealth.org/document/176283/177357/149671/uganda.htm , title=Commonwealth Secretariat - 2006 Uganda Elections - Final Report , accessdate=2009-06-25 , url-status=dead , archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605042130/http://www.thecommonwealth.org/docum ...
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Commonwealth Of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is a political association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire. The chief institutions of the organisation are the Commonwealth Secretariat, which focuses on intergovernmental aspects, and the Commonwealth Foundation, which focuses on non-governmental relations amongst member states. Numerous organisations are associated with and operate within the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth dates back to the first half of the 20th century with the decolonisation of the British Empire through increased self-governance of its territories. It was originally created as the British Commonwealth of Nations through the Balfour Declaration at the 1926 Imperial Conference, and formalised by the United Kingdom through the Statute of Westminster in 1931. The current Commonwealth of Nations was formally constituted by the London Declaration in 1949, which modernised the comm ...
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