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Commonwealth summit postponed over Covid

08 May 2021 17:56 (UTC +04:00)

This year’s summit of Commonwealth heads of government has been postponed for a second time because of the Covid pandemic, APA reports citing BBC.

The meeting was scheduled to take place in the week beginning Monday 21 June in Kigali but the Commonwealth Secretariat announced it would now be postponed to an unspecified date in the future.

Baroness Scotland, the Commonwealth secretary general, said there were still “huge risks” involved in large meetings and the decision to postpone had been taken after consultation with the World Health Organisation.

The meeting – which normally takes place every two years - was originally planned for the summer of 2020 but was postponed after the initial outbreak of Covid 19. This means the 54 Commonwealth leaders will not have met face to face since they gathered in London in 2018.