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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
The thirteenth conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers to be held since the war took place in London on July 8–15, 1964, with the participation of all eighteen independent nations of the British Commonwealth.1 When the conference opened on July 8 under the chairmanship of Sir Alec Douglas-Home (United Kingdom), agreement was reached on an agenda in the following order: 1) a review of the world political situation; 2) the progress of British territories toward independence and membership in the Commonwealth; and 3) means of promoting closer cooperation between the peoples of the Commonwealth; and world economic affairs.
1 Keesing's Contemporary Archives, 07 25-08 1, 1964 (Vol. 14), pp. 20193–20198Google Scholar.
2 Security Council Resolutions 186 (1964), 187 (1964), and 192 (1964).
3 Communiqué Issued at the Conclusion of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Meeting, London, 25 June 1965 (Wellington: New Zealand Department of External Affairs, 1965)Google Scholar; Keesing's Contemporary Archives, 07 10–17, 1965 (Vol. 15), pp. 20841–20846Google Scholar; and The New York Times, June 18, 1965, pp. 1, 2.
