September 1966 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference

16th Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference
Host country	United Kingdom
Dates	6–15 September 1966
Cities	London
Participants	22
Chair	Harold Wilson (Prime Minister)
Follows	January 1966
Precedes	1969
Key points
Rhodesia, disarmament

The September 1966 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference was the sixteenth Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was held in the United Kingdom and was hosted by that country's Prime Minister, Harold Wilson.

The conference was dominated by the rebellion of the British colony of Rhodesia which was under the white minority rule regime of Ian Smith. Facing the possible collapse of the Commonwealth, with African states threatening to leave the association if action wasn't taken against Rhodesia, Britain agreed to a policy of No independence before majority rule (NIBMAR). The Commonwealth issued an ultimatum declaring that if the Smith regime did not comply by the end of the year Britain, with Commonwealth support, would seek mandatory sanctions against Rhodesia by the United Nations.^[1]

The Commonwealth also issued a statement calling for nuclear disarmament and deploring nuclear weapons testing by France and China.^[2]

References

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings

Colonial and Imperial Conferences	1887 1894 1897 1902 1907 1911 1917-1918 1921 1923 1926 1930 1932 1937

Meetings of Prime Ministers	1944 1946 1948 1949 1951 1952 1953 1955 1956 1957 1960 1961 1962 1964 1965 1966 (Jan) 1966 (Sept) 1969

Heads of Government Meetings	1971 1973 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1986 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2002 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2018 2020

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