Sentence examples for commonwealth mission from inspiring English sources

In 1600 Lew Sapieha led a Commonwealth mission to Moscow to propose a union with the Russian state, patterned after the Polish-Lithuanian Union, with the boyars granted rights comparable with those of the Commonwealth's nobility.

The Commonwealth mission condemned the shooting and beating of unarmed protestors this week.

Pretoria's no to the Commonwealth mission has been brutally underlined, since then, by the emergency imposed on the country.

British diplomacy succeeded in deferring that moment after it became clear that the Commonwealth mission had failed.

But ears are closed to him as leader of a Commonwealth mission trying to promote multiracial negotiations in South Africa.

A high-level Commonwealth mission went to South Africa in 1986 in an unsuccessful effort to persuade the government to suspend its military actions in the townships, release political prisoners, and stop destabilizing neighbouring countries.

"The danger is post-election," former Malawian President Bakili Muluzi, who is leading a Commonwealth observer mission, told Reuters.

They point to a strong set of rules on democracy and elections: Commonwealth observer missions often play a significant role in limiting or preventing ballot-rigging.

In the second half of the 20th century, the Commonwealth formulated a mission of promoting democracy, economic development, and human rights.

"The British government's actions have far-reaching consequences across the globe, particularly within the Commonwealth," said the mission's organiser, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers.

In May, I joined a fact-finding mission to the commonwealth with the American Civil Liberties Union, which had extensively documented the culture of lawlessness.