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WEST INDIES ASSOCIATED STATES

(ANTIGUA; DOMINICA; GRENADA; ST CHRISTOPHER, NEVIS AND ANGUILLA; ST LUCIA)

BRITISH GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVE

1967. (February) C. S. Roberts.

ZAMBIA

HIGH COMMISSIONERS

1964. (October) W. B. L. Monson, CB, CMG (later Sir Leslie Monson, KCMG.) 1967. (January) J. L. Pumphrey, CMG.

ZANZIBAR

HIGH COMMISSIONER

1963. (December) T. L. Crosthwait, MBE (later CMG).

(Post terminated with effect from 1st July 1964, see Tanganyika and

Zanzibar above).

PART III

F

PRIME MINISTERS' MEETINGS

ROM 1911 to 1937, Imperial Conferences of the Prime Ministers and other Ministers of Britain and the Dominions were held periodically to discuss matters of common concern, particularly constitutional questions, foreign affairs, defence and economic policy. At the end of each conference full reports of the proceedings and conclusions were published. A brief account of the Imperial Conferences during these years was included in the 1955 Commonwealth Relations Office List.

When meetings were resumed in 1944 the old Imperial Conferences gave place to the more informal exchanges of views on issues of first importance provided by the present Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Meetings, and ad hoc conferences of other Ministers for the discussion of particular questions. Details of the proceedings of these meetings are not published, but it is the practice for a communiqué to be issued at the close of each meeting summarising its results. Brief outlines of the communiqués issued from 1944 to 1962 may be found in the Commonwealth Relations Office Lists of 1961 to 1964. The communiqués issued after the Prime Ministers' Meetings of 1964 and 1965 were published in the Commonwealth Relations Office Year Book, 1966.

There were two Prime Ministers' Meetings in 1966. The earlier of these, at Lagos, was the first meeting to be held in a Commonwealth capital other than London and the first devoted to a single subject (Rhodesia). The communiqués of both the 1966 meetings were published in the Commonwealth Office Year Book, 1967.

There were no Prime Ministers' Meetings during 1967 or 1968. In January, 1969 there was a Meeting of Commonwealth Heads of Government in London. The communique of the meeting is given below.

PRIME MINISTERS' MEETING-JANUARY 1969

The following communiqué was issued on 15th January, 1969 at the end of the meeting.

Commonwealth Heads of Government met in London from 7th-15th January. Botswana, Cyprus, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia were represented by their Presidents. Australia, Barbados, Britain, Canada, Ceylon, The Gambia, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Lesotho, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, New Zealand, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Swaziland and Trinidad and Tobago were represented by their Prime Ministers. Ghana was represented by the Deputy Chairman of the National Liberation Council; Kenya by its Minister of Finance; Nigeria by the Vice-Chairman of the Federal Executive Council; and Pakistan by its Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Prime Minister of Britain was in the Chair.

2. This was the largest meeting of Commonwealth Heads of Government and one of the biggest consultative gatherings of Heads of Government from all parts of the world since the signature of the United Nations Charter. Heads of Government warmly greeted the President of Botswana, and the Prime Ministers of Barbados, Lesotho, Mauritius and Swaziland, whose countries had become new members of the Commonwealth since the previous Meeting.

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