1965 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference

January 2017 April 2022 14th Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference United Kingdom 17–25 June 1965 London 21 Heads of Government Harold Wilson(Prime Minister) 1964 January 1966 Commonwealth peace initiative to Vietnam, race relations, Rhodesia, South Africa, Cyprus, Commonwealth Secretariat The 1965 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference was the 14th Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was held in the United Kingdom in June 1965, and was hosted by British Prime Minister Harold Wilson. The conference approved Wilson's proposal for a Commonwealth peace mission to Vietnam; Wilson subsequently shelved the initiative. The body also approved the creation of the Commonwealth Secretariat proposed at the previous summit and appointed Canadian Arnold Smith as the first Commonwealth Secretary-General. The meeting also discussed the crisis in Rhodesia, relations with South Africa and Portuguese colonies in Africa, and opposition by Asian and African Commonwealth countries to British, Australian and New Zealand support for American intervention in the Vietnam War. The Commonwealth reaffirmed its declaration that all Commonwealth states should work for societies based on racial equality.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nJNVAAAAIBAJ&pg=6958,4794963&dq=commonwealth+prime+ministers&hl=en Archived copy 2015-06-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20160417212549/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nJNVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5pYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6958,4794963&dq=commonwealth+prime+ministers&hl=en 2016-04-17 dead Participants Nation Name Portfolio United Kingdom Harold Wilson Prime Minister (chairman) Australia Robert Menzies Prime Minister Canada Lester Pearson Prime Minister Ceylon A. F. Wijemanne Justice Minister Cyprus 1960 Spyros Kyprianou Foreign Minister The Gambia Dawda Jawara Prime Minister Ghana 1964 Kwame Nkrumah President India Lal Bahadur Shastri Prime Minister Jamaica Donald Sangster Acting Prime Minister Kenya Joseph Murumbi Foreign Minister Malawi Hastings Banda Prime Minister Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman Prime Minister Malta Giorgio Borġ Olivier 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 Tanzania Julius Nyerere President Trinidad and Tobago Eric Williams Prime Minister Uganda Milton Obote Prime Minister Zambia 1964 Kenneth Kaunda President References External links Newsreel 1965 Category:Diplomatic conferences in the United Kingdom Category:1960s diplomatic conferences Category:1965 in international relations Category:1965 in London Category:United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations Category:1965 conferences Category:June 1965 in the United Kingdom Category:Harold Wilson Category:Robert Menzies Category:Premiership of Lester B. Pearson Category:Kwame Nkrumah Category:Julius Nyerere