But it is the gay rights aspect that campaigners cite as a key change to Commonwealth policy: more than 80 per cent of Commonwealth countries still operates under antiquated anti-gay legislation remaining from the days of the Empire, with 41 former British colonies including Jamaica, Singapore and Malaysia still criminalising homosexuality.
He founded several other Jesuit colleges, and was active in propagating Catholicism, while at the same time being respectful of the Commonwealth policy of religious tolerance, issuing a number of decrees offering protection to Polish Jews, and denouncing any religious violence.
Asked about comments by the Western Australian premier, Colin Barnett, that his state would welcome refugee families, and accommodate them if more were accepted by the federal government, Shergold said he would not comment on commonwealth refugee policy.
Though his grand international political plans failed, he did improve the Commonwealth foreign policy, supporting the establishment of a network of permanent diplomatic agents in important European countries.
THORN MEAD Marblehead, Mass., Sept. 20, 2002 The writer is a former assistant secretary of transportation policy, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In the 1944 campaign Roosevelt endorsed the founding of a "free and democratic Jewish Commonwealth," and U.S. policy subsequently clashed with Britain's, which aimed at maintaining paramountcy in the region through good relations with the Arabs.
On the specific issue of motorcycles and scooters, the Commonwealth should be promoting policy advances at meetings of state and commonwealth transport ministers.
The so-called "three circles policy" – Europe, Commonwealth, and the United States – always contained an internal tension, especially between nurturing the "special relationship" while advancing Britain's interests and influence on the continent.
Flouting its own trustee-election policies, as CommonWealth did, was brassy.
In the face of increasing criticism of its apartheid policy, the country withdraws from the Commonwealth, and the Republic of South Africa is proclaimed.
Article XI states that it is the general policy of the Commonwealth to preserve, protect and conserve the state's natural and historic resources.
