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‘A Connected Commonwealth’: the theme for 2019

The Commonwealth offers opportunities for the people, governments and institutions of this richly diverse worldwide family of nations to connect and cooperate at many levels through far-reaching and deep-rooted networks of friendship and goodwill. These are being celebrated in the 2019 theme ‘A Connected Commonwealth’, and in a broad range of Commonwealth events and activities through the year.

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The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC is the sixth Commonwealth Secretary-General. She is the second Secretary-General from the Caribbean and the first woman to hold the post.

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