November 30, 2009 9:30 PM

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Perth next venue for 2011 CHOGM meeting

The Australian city of Perth will host the 2011 Commonwealth Heads of Government, CHOGM meeting. Australian foreign minister Stephen Smith said that CHOGM leaders had decided unanimously on Australia after he and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had put it in the mix of countries offering to host the meeting. The announcement came after the latest summit of the grouping ended in Port of Spain. The two-day meeting of CHOGM, attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh among other top leaders, concluded at Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday. Mr Smith said Sri Lanka and Mauritius were the other countries under consideration, with Sri Lanka winning the right to host the meeting in 2013 and Mauritius in 2015. Australia previously hosted CHOGM in 1981 in Melbourne and in 2002 at Coolum on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

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