UN General Assembly
2015

This is an important year for my country. For the second time in 10 years, we will very soon host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. The summit, guided by the theme “The Commonwealth: Adding Global Value”, will be the culmination of a number of activities and forums, namely, the people’s forum, the youth forum, the business forum and, for the first time, the women’s forum. In organizing the event and our assumption of the chairmanship of the Commonwealth, we plan to address issues of common concern, including global political and security challenges, the most urgent of which is the unprecedented increase in extremism and radicalization, as well as to assess the state of development in the wake of the adoption of the post-2015 agenda and related financing for the development process, with particular attention to practical steps that Commonwealth Governments might take to accelerate the implementation of the outcomes of key global processes.