The new date for the event has not yet been determined.
The scheduled meeting of Commonwealth government leaders in Rwanda in June has been postponed by the coronavirus pandemic. The decision was announced on Tuesday by the Commonwealth Secretariat.
\Планируется that the event, which was to be the 26th to be held in the last year and a half, is still to be held in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, but a new date has not yet been set.
“The pandemic has changed the course of history. People have died, there is an economic downturn and many have lost their livelihoods. It is difficult to predict what the new standard of living will be”, – said Baroness Patricia Scotland, Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations, stressing that under the circumstances, the holding of public events creates too many risks.
The biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting had to be postponed until 2017 due to the effects of Cyclone Pam on Vanuatu, where the event was to take place. It was relocated to London and took place in April 2018.
The Commonwealth of Nations is an international organization that brings together a total of 52 countries, most of which were formerly colonies, dominions or protectorates of the former British Empire.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 2.4 million people worldwide have been infected with coronavirus, and about 170,000 have died.