The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) has marked Commonwealth Day 2016 both in London at the CPA Secretariat and across the CPA regions and
branches.

Her Majesty The Queen, Head of the Commonwealth and Patron of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association attended celebrations in London to
mark Commonwealth Day 2016 and attended one of the largest multi-faith celebration services in Westminster Abbey along with Hon. Dr Shirin Sharmin
Chaudhury, MP, Chairperson of the CPA Executive Committee and Speaker of the Parliament of Bangladesh accompanied by Mr Akbar Khan, Secretary-General of
the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), Commonwealth High Commissioners, the Commonwealth Secretary-General and dignitaries from
around the Commonwealth as well as senior politicians and 1,000 school children.

Also attending the service were 40 young people from across the Commonwealth who were attending the CPA Commonwealth Day Youth Programme on the theme of
ŒAn Inclusive Commonwealth¹. The young people represented the following CPA Branches: Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, New South Wales,
Alderney, Falkland Islands, Isle of Man, Jersey, Malta, St Helena, UK, Wales, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos, New
Zealand and Malaysia.

The CPA Youth Programme included a tour of the UK Houses of Parliament; a presentation by a High Commissioner in London - Ms Peggy McLennan - Guyana
Acting High Commissioner ­ on the ŒThe Commonwealth in London: What does the work of a High Commissioner or UK Representative involve? a presentation
by two UK Members of Parliament on the work that they do in Parliament - Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods MP and Mr Ian Liddle-Grainger MP; an address on ŒAn
Inclusive Commonwealth by Vijay Krishnarayan, Director of the Commonwealth Foundation.

In addition, CPA Branches across the network of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association marked Commonwealth Day in many different ways.
For example, the CPA Australian Capital Territory Branch hosted an event at the Canberra Museum and Gallery, bringing together High Commissioners and
other representatives from Commonwealth member countries, school captains and principals from ACT colleges with Mrs Vicki Dunne MLA, Speaker of the
Legislative Assembly for the ACT.

The UK Parliament marked Commonwealth Day 2016 in a number of ways including an adjournment debate in the main chamber of the House of Commons secured by
the Chair of CPA UK, Iain Liddell-Grainger MP on the theme of Commonwealth Day which debated the work of the CPA.

Commonwealth Day has been celebrated around the Commonwealth on the second Monday in March every year since the 1970s.