Climate, extremism top agenda at Commonwealth summit talks

CHOGM is held after every two years and its theme for this year s meeting is “Adding Global Value”.

Malta is hosting the Commonwealth Business Forum for the second as part of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).

He said Buhari would also participate in a summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission and Benin Republic which had been scheduled to take place on December 2 in Paris on the sidelines of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change.

Tackling climate change and countering violent extremism will top the agenda at the Commonwealth summit in Malta this week, attended by Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Hollande.

“As a council, we will focus on issues and areas that are relevant to all countries including infrastructure, health care, financial services, technology, tourism and sustainability on top of providing an extraordinary opportunity for businesses from across the Commonwealth to meet and network”, said Mwanamvekha.

A new Secretary-General of the Commonwealth who would take over from the incumbent, Kamalesh Sharma, would be announced at the summit which would also feature the presentation of a progress report on the eradication of polio.

In Paris he’ll attend the United Nations climate change conference. “New Zealand will be pushing for a deal that puts the world on a pathway towards limiting global temperature rise to no more than 2°C”.

After delivering his crucial Commons statement to MPs on Syria, Mr Cameron will travel to Malta via Vienna, where he will hold talks with the Austrian chancellor about the UK’s European Union renegotiation bid.

“Over the last 12 months our relationship with Germany has grown significantly, and there are opportunities to expand our economic and scientific cooperation even further”.