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Thaenks, Blair, you are right. Earlier, I had latched onto the Commonwealth
Secretariat site, and Mozambique was there. I failed to notice it. There are no other countries in a similar status. Tony "TC" wrote in message ... On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:54:46 -0500, "A.E. Gelat" wrote: Blair, I fail to understand your reference to Mozambique. As far as I know, there were no British stamps ever used in Mozambique. Please explain. Tony Tony: The legal requirements to join the Commonwealth of Nations do NOT include a prerequisite that you must have been a British colony, dominion, dependency, or territory. Neither is membership mandatory for the latter. It only requires that you subscribe to certain shared values of the other Commonwealth members. See: The Declaration of Commonwealth Principles, 1971 (Singapore) http://www.rcscanada.org/commonwealth/declaration.html and: The Harare Commonwealth Declaration of 1991. http://www.rcscanada.org/commonwealth/harare.html Based on the latter, Mozambique applied to become a member of the Commonwealth of Nations in 1995 and was accepted. Mozambique's membership of the Commonwealth has not only brought material benefits but also participation in the working groups of the 54 Commonwealth member states. Pressure for debt reduction came from within the Commonwealth. Mozambique is now implementing reforms which are being put in place in neighbouring (all Commonwealth) countries. Mozambique had interacted with the Commonwealth in the struggle against apartheid and in 1987 the Commonwealth had created a special fund to help Mozambique cope with South African-inspired destabilization. QUESTION: Will Stanley Gibbons now move Mozambique to their Commonwealth stamp catalogue? Blair -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =----- |
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QUESTION: Will Stanley Gibbons now move Mozambique to their Commonwealth stamp catalogue? Issues of Mozambique from 1995 onwards were listed in Part 1 (which is no longer published, unfortunately). Issues of Cameroun from 1995 onwards would also have been listed there, but Gibbons is about 10 years behind with its Cameroun listings so they never made it. - Dave -- Check out Worldwide Stamp New Issues at http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~jollian Please send replies to New Zealand instead of Zanzibar. Sorry, but the spam is just getting a little bit too much... |
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Whilst taking tea with a sociable bunyip a kangaroo bounded by with the following message. "Paul Herber" wrote in message ... On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 15:09:36 -0500, "A.E. Gelat" wrote: Thaenks, Blair, you are right. Earlier, I had latched onto the Commonwealth Secretariat site, and Mozambique was there. I failed to notice it. There are no other countries in a similar status. I believe Norway applied for Commonwealth membership some time ago. Don't know what came of it. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Paul Herber Systems Ltd. http://www.pherber.com/ Diacrit 2002 - Unicode version now available SanDriLa - SDL/MSC application for Visio email address is spam-trapped - s/*@/paul@/ I believe Cameroon is also a member of the Commonwealth. Cameroon was (or mostly was) a French League of Nations mandate. Alan --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.495 / Virus Database: 294 - Release Date: 30/06/2003 |
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On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 13:39:06 +1000, "Alan"
wrote: Whilst taking tea with a sociable bunyip a kangaroo bounded by with the following message. "Paul Herber" wrote in message .. . On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 15:09:36 -0500, "A.E. Gelat" wrote: Thaenks, Blair, you are right. Earlier, I had latched onto the Commonwealth Secretariat site, and Mozambique was there. I failed to notice it. There are no other countries in a similar status. I believe Norway applied for Commonwealth membership some time ago. Don't know what came of it. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Paul Herber Systems Ltd. http://www.pherber.com/ Diacrit 2002 - Unicode version now available SanDriLa - SDL/MSC application for Visio email address is spam-trapped - s/*@/paul@/ I believe Cameroon is also a member of the Commonwealth. Cameroon was (or mostly was) a French League of Nations mandate. Early on, yes. But it was then a French colony after that for years, until 1960 or so. Tracy Barber |
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"Tracy Barber" wrote in message ... On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 13:39:06 +1000, "Alan" wrote: Whilst taking tea with a sociable bunyip a kangaroo bounded by with the following message. "Paul Herber" wrote in message .. . On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 15:09:36 -0500, "A.E. Gelat" wrote: Thaenks, Blair, you are right. Earlier, I had latched onto the Commonwealth Secretariat site, and Mozambique was there. I failed to notice it. There are no other countries in a similar status. I believe Norway applied for Commonwealth membership some time ago. Don't know what came of it. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Paul Herber Systems Ltd. http://www.pherber.com/ Diacrit 2002 - Unicode version now available SanDriLa - SDL/MSC application for Visio email address is spam-trapped - s/*@/paul@/ I believe Cameroon is also a member of the Commonwealth. Cameroon was (or mostly was) a French League of Nations mandate. Early on, yes. But it was then a French colony after that for years, until 1960 or so. Tracy Barber Yes of course. There were two Cameroons, British and French. Both were German Kamerun until 1914, and were occupied by the British and the French during WWI. The British Cameroons were in two parts, Northern Cameroons and Southern Cameroons. The British Cameroons were governed as part of Nigeria and used Nigerian stamps, although they were League of Nations and later United Nations mandates. The French Camroons were governed separately from the other French territories in the region and had their own stamps, also as mandated territories. When Nigeria got its independence in 1960, the Northern Cameroons ( two separate sections) elected to join Nigeria, while the Southern Cameroons elected to join the French Cameroons upon the latter's its independence in 1960, and was renamed Federal Republic of Cameroun. Its stamps bear the name of the country in English and French, both of which are official languages. Independent Cameroon chose to join the Commonwealth, but retained the franc as its currency. Tony |
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On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 13:47:12 GMT, (Tracy
Barber) wrote: On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 01:44:14 -0400, TC wrote: QUESTION: Will Stanley Gibbons now move Mozambique to their Commonwealth stamp catalogue? Unlikely. It was a Portuguese colony for a lot longer than a member of the "Commonwealth". Tracy Barber Tracy: Someone posted here that SG already did this. But they only listed the issues since 1995 when Mozambique joined the Commonwealth. It appears the SG Part I catalogue (Commonwealth) has now been discontinued, so it all becomes an academic discussion. Blair -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =----- |
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On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 23:38:03 -0400, TC wrote:
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 13:47:12 GMT, (Tracy Barber) wrote: On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 01:44:14 -0400, TC wrote: QUESTION: Will Stanley Gibbons now move Mozambique to their Commonwealth stamp catalogue? Unlikely. It was a Portuguese colony for a lot longer than a member of the "Commonwealth". Tracy Barber Tracy: Someone posted here that SG already did this. But they only listed the issues since 1995 when Mozambique joined the Commonwealth. It appears the SG Part I catalogue (Commonwealth) has now been discontinued, so it all becomes an academic discussion. Gotcha! Tracy Barber |
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