Most recently , during 2013 and 2014 , international pressure mounted to suspend Sri Lanka from the Commonwealth , citing grave human rights violations by the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa . There were also calls to change the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2013 from Sri Lanka to another member country . Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper threatened to boycott the event , but was instead represented at the meeting by Deepak Obhrai . UK Prime Minister David Cameron also chose to attend . These concerns were rendered moot by the election of opposition leader Maithripala Sirisena as President in 2015
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2013
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2013
Commonwealth of Nations