the conference Social_event attempted to coordinate Control industrial research for the purposes of promoting Cause_to_make_progress unk trade Exchange and this was largely successful , with departments of scientific and industrial research Research being founded Creating in the uk , new zealand and india , and the commonwealth institute of science and industry being restructured Reforming_a_system in australia .

ukraine and many world leaders condemned Judgment_communication the annexation Change_of_leadership and consider Deciding it to be a violation Legality of international law and unk agreements safeguarding the territorial integrity of ukraine , including the unk accords establishing Creating the commonwealth of independent states in 1991 , the helsinki accords , the budapest memorandum on security assurances of 1994 and the treaty on friendship , cooperation and partnership between the russian federation and ukraine .

the unk ashes ( named Name_conferral commonwealth bank ashes series for sponsorship reasons ) was a test Testing cricket series between england and australia .

Power outages were frequent across the commonwealth , and beach erosion resulted Causation from strong storm Catastrophe surge .

prior to the conference , robert mcintyre and douglas young , the leaders of the scottish national party Social_event , lobbied king , fraser , smuts , huggins , and curtin , asking Request them to raise Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the issue of scottish independence at the conference and to invite Request scotland to take part in it and all future commonwealth conferences .

in all , some 1.1 million canadians served Assistance in the canadian army , royal canadian navy , royal canadian air force , and in forces across the commonwealth , with approximately 42,000 killed and another 55,000 wounded .

the canadian merchant navy completed Process_end over 25,000 voyages across the atlantic , 130,000 allied pilots were trained Education_teaching in canada in the british commonwealth air training plan .