1960 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference

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10th Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference
Host country United Kingdom
Dates3–13 May 1960
CitiesLondon
Participants11
ChairHarold Macmillan
(Prime Minister)
Follows1957
Precedes1961
Key points
Apartheid in South Africa

The 1960 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference was the tenth

Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was held in the United Kingdom in May 1960, and was hosted by that country's Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan
.

This was the first Commonwealth conference since

referendum on the issue. Ghana was advised that its continued membership in the Commonwealth as a republic was recognised, however, South Africa was advised that it would need to seek consent of other Commonwealth governments for its membership to continue.[2]

Participants

Nation Name Portfolio
 United Kingdom Harold Macmillan Prime Minister (Chairman)
 Australia Robert Menzies Prime Minister
 Canada John Diefenbaker Prime Minister
 Ceylon E. J. Cooray Minister of Justice
 Ghana Kwame Nkrumah Prime Minister
 India Jawaharlal Nehru Prime Minister
 Malaya Tunku Abdul Rahman Prime Minister
 New Zealand Walter Nash Prime Minister
 Pakistan
Ayub Khan
President
 Rhodesia and Nyasaland Sir Roy Welensky Prime Minister
South Africa South Africa Eric Louw Minister of External Affairs

References

  1. ^ "The Leader-Post – Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  2. ISBN 9780850923179. Retrieved 11 November 2013 – via Google Books
    .