The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) held its Seventy-Fourth Meeting, in extraordinary session, on Sunday, 20 September 2026, on the margins of the Eighty-First Session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York.
CMAG was formed in 1995 to be a custodian of the fundamental political values and principles of the Commonwealth. It is made up of a rotating group of foreign ministers from eight member countries, drawn from different regions, plus the foreign minister of the Commonwealth Chair-in-Office, the host of the previous Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).
The 74th meeting was convened by the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Honourable Shirley Botchwey, and chaired by Honourable Chris Fearne, Minister for Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Malta. The Deputy Prime Minister of Samoa, the Honourable Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioʻo, participated alongside the Honourable Ministers and representatives from Antigua and Barbuda, Botswana, Canada, Grenada, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius and Zambia, who are members of CMAG.
