In­com­ing Com­mon­wealth chair­man and Gas­ton Browne has called for clos­er co­op­er­a­tion among mid­dle and small na­tions, say­ing a stronger al­liance is need­ed as glob­al pow­er struc­tures shift.

The Prime Min­is­ter of An­tigua and Bar­bu­da made the call in an opin­ion ar­ti­cle pub­lished in The Tele­graph on Mon­day. He said the Com­mon­wealth of Na­tions could serve as the foun­da­tion for an al­liance of mid­dle pow­ers pro­posed by Mark Car­ney, the Prime Min­is­ter of Cana­da.

“In a world of shift­ing glob­al pow­er struc­tures, there is an ob­vi­ous need for a coali­tion of com­pat­i­ble mid­dle and small na­tions to­geth­er mag­ni­fy­ing their in­flu­ence glob­al­ly,” Browne wrote.