1964 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference Explained

Summit Name:13th Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference
Cities:London
Participants:18
Chairperson:Sir Alec Douglas-Home
(Prime Minister)
Follows:1962

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
Sir Alec Douglas-HomePrime Minister (Chairman)
Robert MenziesPrime Minister
Lester PearsonPrime Minister
Sirimavo BandaranaikePrime Minister
Spyros KyprianouForeign Minister
Kwame NkrumahPresident
T. T. KrishnamachariFinance Minister
Donald SangsterFinance Minister
Jomo KenyattaPrime Minister
Hastings BandaPrime Minister
Tunku Abdul RahmanPrime Minister
Keith HolyoakePrime Minister
Sir Abubakar Tafawa BalewaPrime Minister
Ayub KhanPresident
Albert MargaiPrime Minister
Eric WilliamsPrime Minister
Milton ObotePrime Minister
Julius NyererePresident

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Archived copy . 2015-06-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160418071124/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7fpjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yuUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6916,5554738&dq=commonwealth+prime+ministers&hl=en . 2016-04-18 . dead .