This organization was first established by the Statute of Westminster. The 1991 Heads of Government Meeting in Zimbabwe reaffirmed a declaration stating its voluntary and cooperative nature first put forth in the meeting twenty years earlier in Singapore, and its original definition was stretched with the admission of Mozambique in 1995. Burma rejected membership upon independence in 1948, and Ireland, (*) South Africa, and Pakistan withdrew from it, although the latter two have since rejoined. Manchester and Melbourne were the hosts of this or
This organization was first established by the Statute of Westminster. The 1991 Heads of Government Meeting in Zimbabwe reaffirmed a declaration stating its voluntary and cooperative nature first put forth in the meeting twenty years earlier in Singapore, and its original definition was stretched with the admission of Mozambique in 1995. Burma rejected membership upon independence in 1948, and Ireland, (*) South Africa, and Pakistan withdrew from it, although the latter two have since rejoined. Manchester and Melbourne were the hosts of this organization's quadrennial athletic Games, founded in 1930 as the British Empire Games. FTP, name this association of sovereign states, almost all of whom were former members of colonial Britain.
This organization was first established by the Statute of Westminster.
the (British) {Commonwealth} of {Nations}