Editing Foreign relations of Malawi (section)

==Malawi and the Commonwealth of Nations==

Malawi became a full member of the [[Commonwealth of Nations]] on independence from the United Kingdom in 1964. [[Queen Elizabeth II]], [[Head of the Commonwealth]], was [[Queen of Malawi]], represented by the [[Governor-General of Malawi]], until the country became a [[republic in the Commonwealth of Nations]] in 1966, when the then [[Prime Minister of Malawi]], [[Hastings Banda]], declared himself the first [[President of Malawi]].