Africa Confidential had already exclusively reported that Foreign Secretary David Lammy had written to Commonwealth Secretary-General Baroness Patricia Scotland rejecting her invitation to member states to approve the readmission (AC Vol 65 No 24 Zimbabwe readmission ‘is off')...
Commonwealth Secretary-General Baroness Patricia Scotland's plan to re-admit Zimbabwe has run into resistance from Britain's Labour government diplomatic sources have told Africa Confidential...
The outgoing Secretary-General Baroness Patricia Scotland has written to member states seeking their views but making it clear she supports Harare's candidacy...
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The reason for this decision dates back to an audit report in 2019 which stated that current Secretary-General Baroness Patricia Scotland had circumvented tendering rules to award a £250 000 contract to a close friend and fellow Labour peer (Dispatches 30/6/22 Scotland wins leadership battle despite Whitehall opposition)...
Making sure to pay a courtesy call on Patricia Scotland Secretary General of the Commonwealth while he was in London to attend King Charles III's coronation Mnangagwa has to jump the same election hurdle to stand a chance of being readmitted to the body...
Vol 63 No 19 |
- AFRICA
- BRITAIN
Johnson's only visit as prime minister to the continent was for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit (CHOGM) in Kigali in June where African leaders voted overwhelmingly against Britain's preferred candidate for Commonwealth secretary-general Jamaica's foreign minister Kamina Johnson Smith in favour of retaining the incumbent Patricia Scotland (Dispatches 30/6/22 Scotland wins leadership battle despite Whitehall opposition)...
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Baroness Patricia Scotland won re-election as the Secretary General of the Commonwealth in a tight contest and bad-tempered finale to its summit in Kigali between 20 and 26 June the organisation's first in-person meeting for over two years...
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With the incumbent British Baroness Patricia Scotland seeking a second four-year term this would pit the African and Caribbean regional blocs against each other...
In a last-ditch bid to remain secretary-general of the London-based Commonwealth Secretariat Dominica-born British national Baroness Patricia Scotland of Asthal claims she is being unfairly treated because of her ethnicity...
The Commonwealth observers were writing a formal assessment of the vote but also a separate paper for Secretary-General Baroness Patricia Scotland on whether Zimbabwe had successfully made its case to rejoin the organisation...
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