1964 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference

April 2022 January 2017 13th Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference 8–15 July 1964 London 18 Heads of Government Sir Alec Douglas-Home(Prime Minister) 1962 1965 Race relations, decolonisation, Southern Rhodesia, Apartheid in South Africa, Cyprus, Commonwealth Secretariat, Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation 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 British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home. With the collapse of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the Commonwealth decided to exclude the white minority ruled 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, and 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.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7fpjAAAAIBAJ&pg=6916,5554738&dq=commonwealth+prime+ministers&hl=en 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 Participants Nation Name Portfolio United Kingdom Sir Alec Douglas-Home Prime Minister (Chairman) Australia Robert Menzies Prime Minister Canada 1957 Lester Pearson Prime Minister Ceylon Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister Cyprus 1960 Spyros Kyprianou Foreign Minister Ghana 1964 Kwame Nkrumah President India T. T. Krishnamachari Finance Minister Jamaica Donald Sangster Finance Minister Kenya Jomo Kenyatta Prime Minister Malawi Hastings Banda Prime Minister Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman Prime Minister New Zealand Keith Holyoake Prime Minister Nigeria Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Prime Minister Pakistan Ayub Khan President Sierra Leone Albert Margai Prime Minister Trinidad and Tobago Eric Williams Prime Minister Uganda Milton Obote Prime Minister Tanzania Julius Nyerere President References 1964 Category:Diplomatic conferences in the United Kingdom Category:1960s diplomatic conferences Category:1964 in international relations Category:1964 in London Category:United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations Category:1964 conferences Category:July 1964 in the United Kingdom Category:Alec Douglas-Home Category:Robert Menzies Category:Premiership of Lester B. Pearson Category:Kwame Nkrumah Category:Jomo Kenyatta Category:Julius Nyerere