1964 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference
# 1964 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference

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.

## Participants

| Nation | Name | Portfolio |
| - | - | - |
| United Kingdom | Sir Alec Douglas-Home | Prime Minister (Chairman) |
| Australia | Robert Menzies | Prime Minister |
| Canada | Lester Pearson | Prime Minister |
| Ceylon | Sirimavo Bandaranaike | Prime Minister |
| Cyprus | Spyros Kyprianou | Foreign Minister |
| Ghana | 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 |
