PM Gaston Browne to meet several govt heads at CHOGM 2022 in Rwanda

Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne and Foreign Minister Chet Greene are attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM 2022) in Kigali, Rwanda. On the margins of CHOGM 2022, the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister will meet the leaders of several Commonwealth countries in a series of bilateral meetings between Antigua and Barbuda and the respective countries. These meetings will seek to strengthen bilateral ties and deepen cooperation between a number of countries, including Cyprus, Nigeria, Kenya, Malta, Rwanda, Ghana, Canada and the United Kingdom and Antigua and Barbuda.Additionally, Prime Minister Gaston Browne will attend two closed executive sessions for Commonwealth Heads of Government on Friday, 24th June. In the first of these executive sessions, an election will be held to select the next Secretary General of the Commonwealth. The candidates are the incumbent Secretary General, Baroness Patricia Scotland of Dominica; Senator the Kamina Johnson-Smith of Jamaica and Sir Iakoba Taeia Italeli of Tuvalu.The theme for this year’s CHOGM is “Delivering a Common Future: Connecting, Innovating, Transforming.” It focuses on key priority areas which reflect the global challenges to which the Commonwealth must adequately respond. These are fairness, prosperity, security and sustainability.Commonwealth leaders from across 54 Commonwealth countries will travel to Rwanda to reaffirm their shared values and agree on actions and policies to better the lives of all their residents. Determinations taken at CHOGM also direct the work programme of the Commonwealth Secretariat.