1965 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference

14th Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference
14th Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference
Host country	United Kingdom
Dates	17–25 June 1965
Cities	London
Participants	21
Chair	Harold Wilson; (Prime Minister)
Follows	1964
Precedes	January 1966
Key points
	Commonwealth peace initiative to Vietnam, race relations, Rhodesia, South Africa, Cyprus, Commonwealth Secretariat

The 1965 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference was the 14th

Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was held in the United Kingdom in June 1965, and was hosted by that country's Prime Minister, Harold Wilson

The Conference approved Prime Minister Wilson's proposal for a Commonwealth peace mission to Vietnam; Wilson subsequently shelved the initiative. The body also approved the creation of the Commonwealth Secretariat proposed at the previous summit and appoints Canadian Arnold Smith as the first Commonwealth Secretary-General. The meeting also discussed the crisis in Rhodesia, relations with South Africa and Portuguese colonies in Africa, and opposition by Asian and African Commonwealth countries to British, Australian and New Zealand's support for American intervention in the Vietnam War. The Commonwealth reaffirmed its declaration that all Commonwealth states should work for societies based on racial equality.^[1]

Participants

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