Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott arrives at the Nelum Pokuna Mahinda Rakapaksa theater, the main venue for the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Heads of Governments meeting, in Colombo, Sri Lanka , Friday, Nov. 15, 2013. Sri Lanka opened its Commonwealth summit Friday with a dazzle of dancers, words from Buddha and red-carpeted stairway lined with smiling children to greet leaders from Britain and its former territories, even as some were absent in protest over Sri Lanka&#39;s human rights record.