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DSR 11C
3. The official activities of the Commonwealth include the
biennial CHOGM, the annual Finance Ministers meeting, held
just before the annual meeting of the IMF and the World
Bank, and triennial Ministerial meetings in health,
education, law and agriculture.
Officials meet on these
and many other subjects such as civil aviation, forestry,
postal administration and telecommunications.
Commonwealth
senior officials meet biennially in the year in which
CHOGM is not held. There are also Commonwealth aid
programmes, such as the Commonwealth Fund for Technical
Cooperation (CFTC), the Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP)
and the Commonwealth Science Council (CSC), and the Common-
wealth Foundation fosters a wide range of professional
contacts among, for example, engineers, architects,
journalists and nurses. The Commonwealth Development
Corporation (CDC) invests in projects in most Commonwealth
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countries, and more recently in some non-Commonwealth
countries too.
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4. There are also a large number of non-official
Commonwealth bodies, such as the Royal Commonwealth
Society and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
5. There is currently a trend towards regionalism
in the Commonwealth. For example there have been two
meetings recently of Heads of Government of the Asia-
Pacific region. There have been discussions from time to
time of a Caribbean grouping, and Commonwealth African
countries meet in the margins of the Organisation of
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African Unity (OAU) meetings.