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CWG Stares at Uncertain Future
- 19 Apr 2024
- 2 min read
Recently, Malaysia rejected the offer to host the Commonwealth Games (CWG) citing short notice and insufficient funds.
- The Commonwealth Games (CWG) is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which mostly consists of territories of the former British Empire.
Commonwealth Nations:
- The Commonwealth is a collective of 56 countries, primarily former British colonies.
- Established in 1949 by the London Declaration.
- Members are mainly situated in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific, with notable emerging economies.
- It was created as the British Commonwealth of Nations through the Balfour Declaration of 1926.
- The chief institutions of the organisation are Commonwealth Secretariat and Commonwealth Foundation which focuses on intergovernmental aspects and non-governmental relations among member states respectively.
- The Commonwealth consists of both Republics and Realms.
- The British monarch is the Head of State for the realms, whereas the republics are ruled by elected governments except in the case of five countries — Brunei Darussalam, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malaysia, and Tonga — each a self-governed monarchy.
- The realms are Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, etc.
Read more: Future of the Commonwealth
