1964 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference

13th Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference
13th Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference
Host country	United Kingdom
Dates	8–15 July 1964
Cities	London
Participants	18
Chair	Sir Alec Douglas-Home; (Prime Minister)
Follows	1962
Precedes	1965
Key points
	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 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

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