Leaders of over 50 commonwealth
countries will begin their three day deliberations on Friday on the
major challenges confronting the world besides seeking to make the
commonwealth more responsive to the concerns of member countries.
Ansari
and his wife Salma were received at the airport in Perth by Australian
Defence Minister Stephen Smith and Brenden Grills, the Regional
Development Minister of Western Australia.
On
demands by a section of members to reconsider Sri Lanka as the host of
the next CHOGM summit, Ansari a decision to hold the next CHOGM in Sri
Lanka was already taken in 2009.
"Well,
as far as we are concerned, the decision to have the next CHOGM in 2013
was taken at the meeting in Port of Spain. That is a decision and that
is the end of the matter," Ansari told reporters accompanying him to
Perth.
The
demands for change in venue of the next summit in Sri Lanka has been
raised by an influential section of members who have questioned the
island nation's record on alleged war crimes during it's fight against
LTTE.
Ansari also pitched for an international mechanism to check the scourge of terrorism.
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