What is the Commonwealth

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What is the Commonwealth. Well, the commonwealth or put another way, the commonwealth of nations, is a organization made up of 53 countries. Lthe vast majority, former colonies of the British Empire. They are 53 sovereign and independent or semi-independent countries that have common historical ties to the United Kingdom. The main objective of the commonwealth is international cooperation in the political and economic sphere of all these countries. That is, the British Empire was dismembered but they were joining the commonwealth to make a powerful entity or body in terms of foreign policy. Also to establish strong commercial ties between all of them. In fact, the figure of the sovereign of England (or sovereign) is recognized and in fact, currently, the queen of england is the head of this organization (commonwealth). The origin of the commonwealth is in 1930 when the British government recognized the right of self-determination of the former British colonies

. In fact it is a treaty that tries to unite the links and ties of linguistic, cultural and historical language by fostering friendship and cooperation between what was the former empire and the former colonies. In fact, everything begins at the end of the XIX century, with the current of thought that advocated because; each state had to be independent and self-govern itself. What's more, after World War II, the British Empire begins to crumble but they have the idea of ​​creating the commonwealth and all that collapse of the empire returns to arise in the form of economic, social and cultural ties between all the former colonies and what had been the metropolis, the United Kingdom in Yes.

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