Australias: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh: India announced Sunday that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be the second leader after Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to boycott the Nov. 15-17 meeting. There are 54 members of the Commonwealth, a loose association of former British colonies, according to 660 News. Rhiannon, whose Greens party is not part of Australias conservative coalition government, described the treatment as unlawful, given she had an appropriate tourist visa and a letter from Australias Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to the Sri Lankan government explaining her trip and CANBERRA, Australia Australias prime minister was under mounting pressure Monday to join his Indian and Canadian counterparts in boycotting a British Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka this week over concerns about the island nations human rights record. Australian Senator Lee Rhiannon called on Prime Minister Tony Abbott to boycott the meeting after she and New Zealand lawmaker Jan Logie were prevented from holding a press conference on human rights issues in Colombo on Sunday by immigration officials who seized their passports and took them to their hotels for three hours of questioning. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.