FM joins special CMAG meet

Foreign Minister Dipu Moni attended a special meeting of Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London yesterday.
The CMAG is the custodian of Commonwealth care values and principle.
The meeting was designed to receive ministerial guidance to the further role and relevance of the body. Dipu Moni presented Bangladesh's views and suggestions on how to transform the CMAG from a reactive body to a usefully proactive body.
The suggestions were well taken and will be used as inputs for the Secretariat to draw up a paper for approval by ministers in the next CMAG meeting in New York in September, said a foreign ministry press release.
The current members of CMAG are Australia, Bangladesh, Ghana, Jamaica, Maldives, Namibia, New Zealand, Trinidad & Tobago and Vanuatu.
According to media reports, two of the key agenda came across the table for discussion prominently were strengthening the role of the CMAG and the developments in the Fiji Islands.
Fiji was fully suspended from the Commonwealth on September 1, 2009 after Commodore Frank Bainimarama who had seized power in 2006 coup, failed to fulfil his commitment to rejoining negotiations with the opposition and holding credible elections in October 2010.