1964 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference

13th Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference
Host country United Kingdom United Kingdom
Dates 815 July 1964
Cities London
Participants 18
Chair Sir Alec Douglas-Home
(Prime Minister)
Follows 1962
Precedes 1965
Key points

The 1964 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference was the thirteenth 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 that country'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

Nation Name Portfolio
United Kingdom United Kingdom Sir Alec Douglas-Home Prime Minister (Chairman)
Australia Australia Robert Menzies Prime Minister
Canada Canada Lester Pearson Prime Minister
Dominion of Ceylon Ceylon Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister
Cyprus Cyprus Spyros Kyprianou Foreign Minister
Ghana Ghana Kwame Nkrumah President
India India T. T. Krishnamachari Finance Minister
Jamaica Jamaica Donald Sangster Finance Minister
Kenya Kenya Jomo Kenyatta Prime Minister
Malawi Malawi Hastings Banda Prime Minister
Malaysia Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman Prime Minister
New Zealand New Zealand Keith Holyoake Prime Minister
Nigeria Nigeria Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Prime Minister
Pakistan Pakistan Ayub Khan President
Sierra Leone Sierra Leone Albert Margai Prime Minister
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago Eric Williams Prime Minister
Uganda Uganda Milton Obote Prime Minister
Tanzania United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar Julius Nyerere President

References

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