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<p><b>Imperial Conferences</b> (<b>Colonial Conferences</b> before 1907) were periodic gatherings of government leaders from the self-governing colonies and dominions of the <a href="British_Empire" title="British Empire">British Empire</a> between 1887 and 1937, before the establishment of regular <a href="Meeting_of_Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers" class="mw-redirect" title="Meeting of Commonwealth Prime Ministers">Meetings of Commonwealth Prime Ministers</a> in <a href="1944_Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers'_Conference" title="1944 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference">1944</a>. They were held in <a href="First_Colonial_Conference" class="mw-redirect" title="First Colonial Conference">1887</a>, <a href="1894_Colonial_Conference" title="1894 Colonial Conference">1894</a>, <a href="1897_Colonial_Conference" title="1897 Colonial Conference">1897</a>, <a href="1902_Colonial_Conference" title="1902 Colonial Conference">1902</a>, <a href="1907_Imperial_Conference" title="1907 Imperial Conference">1907</a>, <a href="1911_Imperial_Conference" title="1911 Imperial Conference">1911</a>, <a href="1921_Imperial_Conference" title="1921 Imperial Conference">1921</a>, <a href="1923_Imperial_Conference" title="1923 Imperial Conference">1923</a>, <a href="1926_Imperial_Conference" title="1926 Imperial Conference">1926</a>, <a href="1930_Imperial_Conference" title="1930 Imperial Conference">1930</a>, <a href="British_Empire_Economic_Conference" title="British Empire Economic Conference">1932</a> and <a href="1937_Imperial_Conference" title="1937 Imperial Conference">1937</a>.
</p><p>All the conferences were held in London, the seat of the Empire, except for the 1894 and 1932 conferences which were held in <a href="Ottawa" title="Ottawa">Ottawa</a>, the capital of the senior <a href="Dominion" title="Dominion">Dominion</a> of the Crown. The 1907 conference changed the name of the meetings to Imperial Conferences and agreed that the meetings should henceforth be regular rather than taking place while overseas statesmen were visiting London for royal occasions (e.g. jubilees and coronations).
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_conferences">List of conferences</h2></div>
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<th width="50px">Year
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<th width="175px">Date
</th>
<th width="150px">Host
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<th width="125px">Location
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<th width="125px">Retreat
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<th width="150px">Chairman
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<th><a href="First_Colonial_Conference" class="mw-redirect" title="First Colonial Conference">1887</a>
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<td>4 April – 6 May
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<td><span class="flagicon nowrap"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> </span><a href="United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>
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<td>London
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<td><a href="Senate_House%2C_London" title="Senate House, London">Senate House</a>, <a href="Bloomsbury" title="Bloomsbury">Bloomsbury</a>
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<td><a href="Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil%2C_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury" title="Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury">Lord Salisbury</a>
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<th><a href="1894_Colonial_Conference" title="1894 Colonial Conference">1894</a>
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<td>28 June – 9 July
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<td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="Canada" title="Canada"></a></span></span> Canada
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<td><a href="Ottawa" title="Ottawa">Ottawa</a>
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<td><a href="Centre_Block" title="Centre Block">Centre Block</a>
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<td><a href="Mackenzie_Bowell" title="Mackenzie Bowell">Mackenzie Bowell</a>
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<th><a href="1897_Colonial_Conference" title="1897 Colonial Conference">1897</a>
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<td>24 June – 8 July
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<td rowspan="10"><span class="flagicon nowrap"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> </span><a href="United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>
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<td rowspan="10">London
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<td><a href="Colonial_Office" title="Colonial Office">Colonial Office</a>, <a href="Whitehall" title="Whitehall">Whitehall</a>
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<td><a href="Joseph_Chamberlain" title="Joseph Chamberlain">Joseph Chamberlain</a>
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<th><a href="1902_Colonial_Conference" title="1902 Colonial Conference">1902</a>
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<td>30 June – 11 August
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<td rowspan="9">
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<td><a href="Joseph_Chamberlain" title="Joseph Chamberlain">Joseph Chamberlain</a>
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<th><a href="1907_Imperial_Conference" title="1907 Imperial Conference">1907</a>
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<td>15 April – 14 May
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<td><a href="Henry_Campbell-Bannerman" title="Henry Campbell-Bannerman">Henry Campbell-Bannerman</a>
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<th><a href="1911_Imperial_Conference" title="1911 Imperial Conference">1911</a>
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<td>23 May – 20 June
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<td><a href="H._H._Asquith" title="H. H. Asquith">H. H. Asquith</a>
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<th><a href="Imperial_War_Cabinet" title="Imperial War Cabinet">1917</a>
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<td>21 March – 27 April
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</p>
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<td><a href="David_Lloyd_George" title="David Lloyd George">David Lloyd George</a>
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<th><a href="Imperial_War_Cabinet" title="Imperial War Cabinet">1918</a>
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<td>12 June – 26 July
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</td>
<td><a href="David_Lloyd_George" title="David Lloyd George">David Lloyd George</a>
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<th><a href="1921_Imperial_Conference" title="1921 Imperial Conference">1921</a>
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<td>20 June – 5 August
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<td><a href="David_Lloyd_George" title="David Lloyd George">David Lloyd George</a>
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<th><a href="1923_Imperial_Conference" title="1923 Imperial Conference">1923</a>
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<td>1 October – 8 November
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<td><a href="Stanley_Baldwin" title="Stanley Baldwin">Stanley Baldwin</a>
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<th><a href="1926_Imperial_Conference" title="1926 Imperial Conference">1926</a>
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<td>19 October – 22 November
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<td><a href="Stanley_Baldwin" title="Stanley Baldwin">Stanley Baldwin</a>
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<th><a href="1930_Imperial_Conference" title="1930 Imperial Conference">1930</a>
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<td>1 October – 14 November
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<td><a href="Ramsay_MacDonald" title="Ramsay MacDonald">Ramsay MacDonald</a>
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<th><a href="British_Empire_Economic_Conference" title="British Empire Economic Conference">1932</a>
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<td>21 July – 18 August
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<td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="Canada" title="Canada"></a></span></span> Canada
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<td><a href="Ottawa" title="Ottawa">Ottawa</a>
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<td><a href="House_of_Commons_of_Canada" title="House of Commons of Canada">House of Commons Chamber</a>, <a href="Parliament_Hill" title="Parliament Hill">Parliament Hill</a>
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<td><a href="R._B._Bennett" title="R. B. Bennett">R. B. Bennett</a>
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<th><a href="1937_Imperial_Conference" title="1937 Imperial Conference">1937</a>
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<td>14 May – 24 June
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<td><span class="flagicon nowrap"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> </span><a href="United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>
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<td>London
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<td><a href="Stanley_Baldwin" title="Stanley Baldwin">Stanley Baldwin</a><br><small>(until 28 May)</small><br><a href="Neville_Chamberlain" title="Neville Chamberlain">Neville Chamberlain</a><br><small>(from 28 May)</small>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_meetings">Notable meetings</h2></div>
<p>Originally instituted to emphasise imperial unity, as time went on, the conferences became a key forum for dominion governments to assert the desire for removing the remaining vestiges of their colonial status.<sup id="cite_ref-Seminars_for_Statesmen_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Seminars_for_Statesmen-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The conference of 1926 agreed to the <a href="Balfour_Declaration_1926" class="mw-redirect" title="Balfour Declaration 1926">Balfour Declaration</a>, which acknowledged that the dominions would henceforth rank as equals to the United Kingdom, as members of the '<a href="British_Commonwealth_of_Nations" class="mw-redirect" title="British Commonwealth of Nations">British Commonwealth of Nations</a>'.
</p><p>The conference of 1930 decided to abolish the legislative supremacy of the <a href="Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">British Parliament</a> as it was expressed through the <a href="Colonial_Laws_Validity_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Colonial Laws Validity Act">Colonial Laws Validity Act</a> and other Imperial Acts. The statesmen recommended that a declaratory enactment of Parliament, which became the <a href="Statute_of_Westminster_1931" title="Statute of Westminster 1931">Statute of Westminster 1931</a>, be passed with the consent of the dominions, but some dominions did not ratify the statute until some years afterwards. The 1930 conference was notable, too, for the attendance of <a href="Southern_Rhodesia" title="Southern Rhodesia">Southern Rhodesia</a>, despite it being a self-governing colony, not a dominion.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Towards_Commonwealth_meetings">Towards Commonwealth meetings</h2></div>
<p>As <a href="World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> drew to a close, Imperial Conferences were replaced by <a href="Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers'_Conference" title="Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference">Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conferences</a>, with 17 such meetings occurring from 1944 until 1969, all but one of the meetings occurred in London. The gatherings were renamed <a href="Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings</a> (CHOGM) in 1971 and were henceforth held every two years with hosting duties rotating around the Commonwealth.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2></div>
<ul><li>Keith, A.B. <i>The Government of the British Empire</i> (1935).</li>
<li><cite id="CITEREFKendle1967" class="citation book cs1"><a href="John_Kendle" title="John Kendle">Kendle, J.E.</a> (1967). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/74/3/999/91500"><i>The Colonial and Imperial Conferences, 1887-1911: A Study in Imperial Organization</i></a>. Imperial Studies. Vol. XXVIII. <a href="London" title="London">London</a>: <a href="Longman" title="Longman">Longmans</a> for the <a href="Royal_Commonwealth_Society" title="Royal Commonwealth Society">Royal Commonwealth Society</a>. <a href="ASIN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ASIN (identifier)">ASIN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000CO3QA">B0000CO3QA</a>. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1086%2Fahr%2F74.3.999">10.1086/ahr/74.3.999</a>.</cite></li>
<li>Olson, James S., ed. <i>Historical Dictionary of European Imperialism</i> (1991) pp 292–300; Covers 1907, 1911, 1921, 1923, 1926 and 1932</li>
<li>Palmer, G.E.H. <i>Constitution and Cooperation in the British Commonwealth</i> (1934)</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofcol00colo/page/n3/mode/2up"><i>Colonial Conference, 1887"</i></a><i>, London: HM Stationery, 1887</i></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/minutesofproceed00colo/page/n5/mode/2up"><i>Colonial Conference, Minutes, 1907</i></a>, London: HM Stationery, 1907</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/imperialconferen0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater"><i>Imperial Conference, 1923</i></a>, London: HM Stationery, 1923</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/imperialconferen0000impe"><i>Imperial Conference, 1926</i></a>, London: HM Stationery, 1926</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="1887_Colonial_Conference" title="1887 Colonial Conference">1887</a></li>
<li><a href="1894_Colonial_Conference" title="1894 Colonial Conference">1894</a></li>
<li><a href="1897_Colonial_Conference" title="1897 Colonial Conference">1897</a></li>
<li><a href="1902_Colonial_Conference" title="1902 Colonial Conference">1902</a></li>
<li><a href="1907_Imperial_Conference" title="1907 Imperial Conference">1907</a></li>
<li><a href="1911_Imperial_Conference" title="1911 Imperial Conference">1911</a></li>
<li><a href="Imperial_War_Conference" title="Imperial War Conference">1917–1918</a></li>
<li><a href="1921_Imperial_Conference" title="1921 Imperial Conference">1921</a></li>
<li><a href="1923_Imperial_Conference" title="1923 Imperial Conference">1923</a></li>
<li><a href="1926_Imperial_Conference" title="1926 Imperial Conference">1926</a></li>
<li><a href="1930_Imperial_Conference" title="1930 Imperial Conference">1930</a></li>
<li><a href="British_Empire_Economic_Conference" title="British Empire Economic Conference">1932</a></li>
<li><a href="1937_Imperial_Conference" title="1937 Imperial Conference">1937</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers'_Conference" title="Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference">Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conferences</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="1944_Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers'_Conference" title="1944 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference">1944</a></li>
<li><a href="1946_Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers'_Conference" title="1946 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference">1946</a></li>
<li><a href="1948_Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers'_Conference" title="1948 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference">1948</a></li>
<li><a href="1949_Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers'_Conference" title="1949 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference">1949</a></li>
<li><a href="1951_Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers'_Conference" title="1951 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference">1951</a></li>
<li><a href="1952_Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers'_Economic_Conference" title="1952 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Economic Conference">1952</a></li>
<li><a href="1953_Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers'_Conference" title="1953 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference">1953</a></li>
<li><a href="1955_Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers'_Conference" title="1955 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference">1955</a></li>
<li><a href="1956_Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers'_Conference" title="1956 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference">1956</a></li>
<li><a href="1957_Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers'_Conference" title="1957 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference">1957</a></li>
<li><a href="1960_Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers'_Conference" title="1960 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference">1960</a></li>
<li><a href="1961_Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers'_Conference" title="1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference">1961</a></li>
<li><a href="1962_Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers'_Conference" title="1962 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference">1962</a></li>
<li><a href="1964_Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers'_Conference" title="1964 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference">1964</a></li>
<li><a href="1965_Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers'_Conference" title="1965 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference">1965</a></li>
<li><a href="January_1966_Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers'_Conference" title="January 1966 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference">1966 (Jan)</a></li>
<li><a href="September_1966_Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers'_Conference" title="September 1966 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference">1966 (Sept)</a></li>
<li><a href="1969_Commonwealth_Prime_Ministers'_Conference" title="1969 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference">1969</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">Heads of Government Meetings</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="1971_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="1971 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">1971</a></li>
<li><a href="1973_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="1973 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">1973</a></li>
<li><a href="1975_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="1975 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">1975</a></li>
<li><a href="1977_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="1977 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">1977</a></li>
<li><a href="1979_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="1979 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">1979</a></li>
<li><a href="1981_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="1981 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">1981</a></li>
<li><a href="1983_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="1983 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">1983</a></li>
<li><a href="1985_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="1985 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">1985</a></li>
<li><a href="1986_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="1986 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">1986</a></li>
<li><a href="1987_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="1987 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">1987</a></li>
<li><a href="1989_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="1989 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">1989</a></li>
<li><a href="1991_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="1991 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">1991</a></li>
<li><a href="1993_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="1993 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">1993</a></li>
<li><a href="1995_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="1995 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">1995</a></li>
<li><a href="1997_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="1997 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">1997</a></li>
<li><a href="1999_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="1999 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">1999</a></li>
<li><a href="2002_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="2002 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">2002</a></li>
<li><a href="2003_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="2003 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">2003</a></li>
<li><a href="2005_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="2005 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">2005</a></li>
<li><a href="2007_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="2007 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">2007</a></li>
<li><a href="2009_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">2009</a></li>
<li><a href="2011_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="2011 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">2011</a></li>
<li><a href="2013_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="2013 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">2013</a></li>
<li><a href="2015_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">2015</a></li>
<li><a href="2018_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="2018 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">2018</a></li>
<li><a href="2022_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="2022 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">2022</a></li>
<li><a href="2024_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="2024 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">2024</a></li>
<li><i><a href="2026_Commonwealth_Heads_of_Government_Meeting" title="2026 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting">2026</a></i></li></ul>
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