Dar es Salaam — President Jakaya Kikwete was yesterday among other leaders at the opening of this year's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.Pomp filled the Riverside Theatre before Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II opened the forum at the meeting and exhibition centre in Perth, Australia.
Among other speakers at the opening ceremony, which took more than an hour, were Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the outgoing chairperson Kamla Persad-Bissessar - the only woman to have been elected to chair the organization - and its secretary general Kamalesh Sharma.
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