Prime Minister Manning, President Kagame, Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma to address media at Marlborough House

WHEN: Monday 8 March 2010 at 09.40 am

WHERE: Commonwealth Secretariat, Marlborough House, London

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Patrick Manning, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda and Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealth Secretary-General, will address a news conference on the morning of Commonwealth Day, 8 March 2010.

Thereafter, Prime Minister Manning, the current Commonwealth Chair-in-Office, and President Kagame will address Commonwealth High Commissioners and invited guests at a flag-raising ceremony in the grounds of Marlborough House, to mark Rwanda’s first Commonwealth Day. Rwanda was admitted to the Commonwealth in November 2009, during the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago.

Mr Manning, Mr Kagame and Mr Sharma will later attend a multi-faith Commonwealth Day Observance at Westminster Abbey, in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen.

Note to Editors

For further enquiries and to confirm attendance at the press briefing, please contact Victoria Holdsworth, Media and Communications Officer at the Commonwealth Secretariat, at v.holdsworth@commonwealth.int or 020 7747 6383.