B*

UGANDA

HIGH COMMISSIONERS

1962 (October) D. W. S. Hunt, CMG, OBE (later Sir David Hunt, KCMG).

1965. (May) R. C. C. Hunt, CMG.

1967. (July) D. A. Scott, CMG.

1970. (March) R. M. K. Slater, CMG.

WEST INDIES ASSOCIATED STATES

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

BRITISH GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES

1967. (February) C. S. Roberts.

1970. (April) J. E. Marnham, CMG, MC, TD.

ZAMBIA

HIGH COMMISSIONERS

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

1971. (June) J. S. R. Duncan, CMG, MBE.

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 communiqué was published in A Year Book of the Commonwealth, 1970. Commonwealth Heads of Government met in Singapore in January 1971. This was the first full Prime Ministers' Meeting to be held outside London. The Meeting issued a commnuiqué the text of which was published in the 1972 edition and also the Commonwealth Declaration, which is printed below.

COMMONWEALTH DECLARATION

The Commonwealth of Nations is a voluntary association of independent sovereign states, each responsible for its own policies, consulting and co-operating in the common interests of their peoples and in the promotion of international understanding and world peace.

Members of the Commonwealth come from territories in the six continents and five oceans, include peoples of different races, languages and religions, and display every stage of economic development from poor developing nations to wealthy industrialised nations. They encompass a rich variety of cultures, traditions and institutions. Membership of the Commonwealth is compatible with the freedom of member governments to be non-aligned or to belong to any other grouping, association or alliance.

Within this diversity all members of the Commonwealth hold certain principles in common. It is by pursuing these principles that the Commonweath can continue to influence international society for the benefit of mankind.