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The Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland, urges the democratic will of the people of The Gambia to be respected, and encourages the continuation of the peaceful, constitutional and dignified transition that has already commenced following the 1 December election.
Read news - Secretary-General encourages continuation of peaceful, constitutional and dignified transition in The Gambia
Secretary-General Patricia Scotland has told an audience at the Transparency International-UK Anti-Corruption Lecture 2016 in London that corruption ‘is a scourge which holds in thrall millions of our Commonwealth sisters and brothers, condemning them to servitude, poverty, disease, indignity and misery’.
Read news - Secretary-General commits Commonwealth ‘to eliminate the scourge of corruption’ at Transparency International lecture