2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting

21st Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
Host country	Trinidad and Tobago
Dates	27–29 November 2009
Venue(s)	Hyatt Regency and Conference Centre, Port of Spain
Cities	Port of Spain
Participants	49 (of 52 members)
Heads of State or Government	34
Chair	Patrick Manning (Prime Minister)
Follows	2007
Precedes	2011
Key points
Global warming Membership criteria Gay rights Sri Lanka

The 2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting was the 21st Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, between 27 and 29 November 2009, and was hosted by that country's Prime Minister, Patrick Manning.^[1]

The host country of the 2011 meeting was also discussed. It had been slated to be hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, but the renewal of the Sri Lankan civil war, and related allegations of human rights abuses, caused some governments, including those of United Kingdom and Canada,^[2][3] to call for a reassessment. This led to the CHOGM being given to Perth, Australia, instead. Sri Lanka was reassigned the CHOGM for CHOGM 2013, and Mauritius was pencilled in as the host of the 2015 CHOGM.^[4]

The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) was reconstituted and strengthened. The Heads of Government agreed to expand the offences that it would be able to investigate to all breaches of the Harare Declaration, rather than just the overthrow of democratic governments.