1975 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting

March 2019 March 2019 3rd Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Jamaica 29 April–6 May 1975 Kingston 33https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1975/may/13/the-commonwealth-conference Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) 13 May 1975 THE COMMONWEALTH CONFERENCE Heads of State or Government 28 Michael Manley(Prime Minister) 1973 1977 Commonwealth DayDisarmamentEconomic issuesSouthern AfricaDisarmamentCyprus dispute,Bangladesh Liberation War The 1975 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, officially known as the III Commonwealth Heads Meeting, and commonly known as Kingston 1975, was the third Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was held from 29 April to 6 May 1975 in Kingston, Jamaica, and was hosted by Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley. Among the topics discussed were nuclear disarmament, the situation in Rhodesia and South Africa, decolonization in Southern Africa, the Turkish invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus, the end of the Vietnam War, the aftermath of the war between Bangladesh and Pakistan and other regional issues.https://books.google.com/books?id=vciLoneE8GYC&q=1975+&pg=PA161 The Commonwealth at the Summit: Communiqués of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings, 1944-1986 9780850923179 Secretariat Commonwealth 1987 Commonwealth Secretariat This was the first meeting in which Grenada participated. Participants The following nations were represented:https://www.thecommonwealth-ilibrary.org/index.php/comsec/catalog/download/886/886/7466?inline=1 Commonwealth Library MEETING OF COMMONWEALTH PRIME MINISTERS, 1975 - FINAL COMMUNIQUE Nation Name Position Jamaica Michael Manley (Chairman) Prime Minister Australia Gough Whitlam Prime Minister Bahamas Lynden Pindling Prime Minister Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman President Barbados Errol Barrow Prime Minister Botswana Sir Seretse Khama President Canada Pierre Trudeau Prime Minister Cyprus Makarios III President Fiji Sir Kamisese Mara Prime Minister The Gambia Sir Dawda Jawara President Ghana Kwame Baah Commissioner for Foreign Affairs Grenada Eric Gairy Prime Minister Guyana Forbes Burnham Prime Minister India Indira Gandhi Prime Minister Kenya Daniel arap Moi Vice President Lesotho 1966 Leabua Jonathan Prime Minister Malawi Dick Matenje Minister of Finance Malaysia Abdul Razak Hussein Prime Minister Malta Dom Mintoff Prime Minister Mauritius Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Prime Minister New Zealand Bill Rowling Prime Minister Nigeria Yakubu Gowon Head of the Federal Military Government Sierra Leone Siaka Stevens President Sri Lanka Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister Singapore Lee Kuan Yew Prime Minister Swaziland Makhosini Dlamini Prime Minister Tanzania Julius Nyerere President Tonga Fatafehi Tuʻipelehake Prime Minister Trinidad and Tobago Kamaluddin Mohammed Minister of Health and Leader of the House of Representatives Uganda Khalid Younis Kinene Permanent Representative to the UN United Kingdom Harold Wilson Prime Minister Western Samoa Fiamē Mataʻafa Faumuina Mulinuʻu II Prime Minister Zambia Kenneth Kaunda President References 1975 Category:1970s diplomatic conferences Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Category:Jamaica and the Commonwealth of Nations Category:20th century in Kingston, Jamaica Category:1975 conferences Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting