1. Детский международный конкурс презентаций Holiday Parade
Name: Badmaeva Dulahn S. Region: 08 Settlement: Ketchenerovsky area, p.Sarpa Educational Institution: MKOU "Sarpinsky School
Class: 9
Name teacher: Shakhanova Galina Galaevna
Settlement of the teacher: Ketchenerovsky area, p.Sarpa
Title of work: Commonwealth Day

2. The holiday Commonwealth
Commonwealth Day (Commonwealth Day) - an annual celebration of the 54 countries participating in the international community, the Commonwealth of Nations (until the British Commonwealth of Nations), an association of independent states of the former British Empire, recognizing the British monarch as a symbol of the free union. Commonwealth Day is celebrated on the second Monday of March. The legal status of the Commonwealth of Nations defined the Statute of Westminster in 1931 (updated in 1947). There is the Commonwealth Secretariat, subject to an annual conference of the Commonwealth. In the UK, in the government post of Minister for the Commonwealth. After the British Empire lost the 13 American colonies, leaving behind Canada, India, some possessions in the West Indies and a number of scattered and isolated settlements in the metropolis appeared two political lines. The first involves a focus on the expansion of British influence in India and the Far East. The second line, along with the expansion of the influence (in the interests of British industry and in order to save public expenditure) allowed the development of self-government in the colonies, to prevent recurrence of the Revolutionary War the North American colonies.

3. In the Commonwealth of Nations the following States: United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Malaysia, Singapore, Cyprus, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago , Uganda, Kenya, Cameroon, Mozambique, Namibia, Malawi, Malta, Gambia, Botswana, Guyana, Lesotho, Barbados, Mauritius, Swaziland, Nauru, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, Bangladesh, Bahamas, Grenada, Papua - New Guinea, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Dominica, St. Lucia, Kiribati, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Zimbabwe, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, Maldives, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Brunei, Vanuatu.

4. The Commonwealth has officially confirmed the status, which is enshrined in the Westminster statute. In the bodies of the Commonwealth has its own secretariat, which organizes conferences for various participants in the peaceful union.

5. The flag of the Commonwealth of Nations
The flag of the Commonwealth of Nations - one of the official symbols of the British Commonwealth. The flag is a blue flag, in the center of which is placed a golden symbol of the Commonwealth - the letter "C" (from the English. Commonwealth), made ​​in the form of copies, encircling the globe. A total of 61 flag spear, and this number does not represent the number of members of the community. The proportions of the flag - 1:2.
The story of the flag The appearance of the flag associated with the meeting of Heads of State of the Commonwealth of Nations, held in the Canadian capital, Ottawa, in Then the image is similar to the current flag was placed on the car pennants assembled delegates.

6. Output
Over the past 50 years, the world has changed - has undergone a change and motivation states - members of the Commonwealth. Associates are such countries as India and Singapore, Nigeria, Bermuda, anything but the records in the book of national history? The answer to this question will largely be the answer to the question of the effectiveness of the Commonwealth, its reality and the "necessity" for the individual member states. The ties between the states, even though significantly lost weight, still cover many areas of society and state - of former empire. Commonwealth - is a fragment of the past, for the conservation of some residues of relations and their significance for the participating countries, the Commonwealth - a monument to the unity of the British people, and, more important, and British culture (and also political) Commonwealth - is an important element of the existing system international relations. These three postulates largely characterize the current state of the Commonwealth of Nations and the nations that are part of it. Common past of the participating countries to leave a mixed memory. Positive and negative consequences of the colonial period still have a significant impact on the politics and economy of the new states.
The modern Commonwealth is very different from the organization that started the process of evolution. In contrast to the cumbersome bureaucratic control colonies, provoked a lot of conflicts with local political elites, the current structure is fully consistent with British interests have on what is beneficial to the former colonies, but was created by the London. Commonwealth now positioned solely as a union of democratic countries. In this context it is interesting that even such a crucial event as an introduction to the organization of Mozambique does particularly noted, not to remind once again that all the other members of the Commonwealth - the former British colony. England made a great contribution to the development of culture and education during the period of colonial empire. Commonwealth programs aimed at human development is a natural extension of the imperial policy for the development of the colonies. Exactly the same applies to the promotion of multilateral economic relations within the organization, promoting co-operation among developing countries associations - they benefit the UK in the context that develop the organization itself. Dynamic state association - it is a huge contribution to the development of the British economy. If you analyze the set of all humanitarian programs of the organization, it becomes clear that their common goal is to create a single dynamic socio-economic and cultural organism to a space of the British Empire.

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