1964 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference

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13th Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference
Host countryFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
Dates815 July 1964
Cities London
Participants18
ChairSir Alec Douglas-Home
(Prime Minister)
Follows 1962
Precedes 1965
Key points

The 1964 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference was the 13th Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was held in the United Kingdom in July 1964, and was hosted by the UK's Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home.

With the collapse of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the Commonwealth decided to exclude the white minority rule regime of Southern Rhodesia from the conference for the first time as it was not an independent state. The conference communique rejected any prospective Unilateral Declaration of Independence by the colony and called for all party talks to achieve a multi-racial state. The meeting also reaffirmed its opposition to apartheid, expressed concern about racial strife in British Guiana and the situation in Cyprus. The Commonwealth meeting expressed sympathy for Malaysia in its conflict with Indonesia. The creation of a Commonwealth Secretariat was also proposed. [1]

Participants

NationNamePortfolio
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Sir Alec Douglas-Home Prime Minister (Chairman)
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Robert Menzies Prime Minister
Canadian Red Ensign (1957-1965).svg  Canada Lester Pearson Prime Minister
Flag of Ceylon.svg  Ceylon Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister
Flag of Cyprus (1960-2006).svg  Cyprus Spyros Kyprianou Foreign Minister
Ghana flag 1964.svg  Ghana Kwame Nkrumah President
Flag of India.svg  India T. T. Krishnamachari Finance Minister
Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica Donald Sangster Finance Minister
Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya Jomo Kenyatta Prime Minister
Flag of Malawi.svg  Malawi Hastings Banda Prime Minister
Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman Prime Minister
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand Keith Holyoake Prime Minister
Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Prime Minister
Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan Ayub Khan President
Flag of Sierra Leone.svg  Sierra Leone Albert Margai Prime Minister
Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago Eric Williams Prime Minister
Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda Milton Obote Prime Minister
Flag of Tanzania.svg  Tanzania Julius Nyerere President

References

  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)