Notes
1. Quoted in The New Zealand Herald, 5 June 2010, the Michele Hewitson interview with Don McKinnon.
2. Press Release, Commonwealth Secretariat, 20 July 2005.
3. These issues are explored further in James Mayall (Ed.) (2005). The Contemporary Commonwealth: An Assessment 1965–2009 (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 58–61.
4. Letter of transmittal from Dr Salim Ahmed Salim, Chairman of the Commonwealth Observer Group (COG), to the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Report of the COG, The National and Presidential Elections in Nigeria 12 and 19 April 2003, Commonwealth Secretariat.
5. Quoted by Tunji Oseni, spokesperson for Nigeria’s State House, and reported in PANA-Press, 25 April 2003. At http://www.panapress.com/Mandela.-others-congratulate-Obasanjo-on-his-re-election-13-481167-18-lang2-index.html, http:allafrica.com/stories200304250512.html.