Commonwealth Conversation Event in Canada
Posted by AlexT - 15/10/09 at 03:10 pmTitle: Commonwealth Conversation Event in Canada
Location: Ottawa
Description: High Commissioner Cary, Nick Hopton, and other members of the High Commission met with a group of parliamentarians from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association to discuss the future of the Commonwealth.
Date: 2009-09-17
From the UK in Canada website:
The British High Commission hosted Nicholas Hopton from the International Organizations Directorate who was in Ottawa to further the Commonwealth Conversation and to discuss international institutional reform (IIR) with his Canadian counterparts. Thinking about ways to improve various international organizations, from the UN to NATO and the Commonwealth, is a priority for the UK government.
Part of his program included talks with the Royal Commonwealth Society of Ottawa and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association on the future of the Commonwealth, as part of the Commonwealth Conversation. He noted the following after his discussions:
“Visiting Canada to discuss the Conversation with Canadian parliamentarians, the Ottawa and Vancouver RCS and officials. We share a responsibility — along with the other members and the Commonwealth Secretariat — to strengthen this unique and diverse international organization. The Commonwealth has the potential to be more effective in delivering on its common values –democracy, rule of law, human rights, good governance. We must get young Canadians to engage more on what they want from their Commonwealth. The Conversation is the way to do that.
His visit produced a frank and thoughtful exchange of ideas on how we can move forward in making our international institutions as effective as possible.
Category : Conversation Events
Tags: Canada
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October 31st, 2009 at 12:30 am
“His visit produced a frank and thoughtful exchange of ideas”
If you’re going to post an article to motivate discussion you should at least include a summary of some of these “frank” and “thoughtful” ideas.
Given some of the groups present I’d like to see the results of the meeting before I conclude that it in anyway made progress towards moving the organization forward.
October 31st, 2009 at 2:23 am
I suspect more trite and pointless assertions of loyalty and hollow promises of further commitment. A summary would be much appreciated.