The Commonwealth developed from the imperial conferences. Conferences of British and colonial prime ministers occurred periodically from the first one in 1887, leading to the creation of the Imperial Conferences in 1911. She declared: "So, it also marks the beginning of that free association of independent states which is now known as the Commonwealth of Nations." As long ago as 1884 Lord Rosebery, while visiting Australia, had described the changing British Empire, as some of its colonies became more independent, as a "Commonwealth of Nations". Queen Elizabeth II, in her address to Canada on Dominion Day in 1959, pointed out that the Confederation of Canada on 1 July 1867 had been the birth of the "first independent country within the British Empire". (L-R) Mackenzie King (Canada), Jan Smuts ( South Africa), Winston Churchill (United Kingdom), Peter Fraser (New Zealand) and John Curtin (Australia) The prime ministers of five members at the 1944 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference.
History Origins of the concept and establishment of the term
The Commonwealth Charter defines their shared values of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, as promoted by the quadrennial Commonwealth Games. Member states have no legal obligations to one another but are connected through their use of the English language and historical ties. He is king of 15 member states, known as the Commonwealth realms, while 36 other members are republics, and five others have different monarchs. The head of the Commonwealth is Charles III. The current Commonwealth of Nations was formally constituted by the London Declaration in 1949, which modernised the community and established the member states as "free and equal". It was originally created as the British Commonwealth of Nations through the Balfour Declaration at the 1926 Imperial Conference, and formalised by the United Kingdom through the Statute of Westminster in 1931. The Commonwealth dates back to the first half of the 20th century with the decolonisation of the British Empire through increased self-governance of its territories. Numerous organisations are associated with and operate within the Commonwealth. The chief institutions of the organisation are the Commonwealth Secretariat, which focuses on intergovernmental aspects, and the Commonwealth Foundation, which focuses on non-governmental relations among member states. The Commonwealth of Nations, simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is a political association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire.
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