1975 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting

3rd Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting

Host country|  Jamaica
Dates| 29 April–6 May 1975
Cities| Kingston
Participants| 33[1]
Heads of State or Government| 28
Chair| Michael Manley
(Prime Minister)
Follows| 1973
Precedes| 1977
Key points

Commonwealth Day
Disarmament
Economic issues
Southern Africa[1]
Disarmament
Cyprus dispute,
Bangladesh Liberation War

The 1975 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, officially known as the III Commonwealth Heads Meeting, and commonly known as Kingston 1975, was the third Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was held from 29 April to 6 May 1975 in Kingston, Jamaica, and was hosted by that country's Prime Minister, Michael Manley.

Among the topics discussed were nuclear disarmament, the situation in Rhodesia, South Africa and decolonization in Southern Africa, the Turkish invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus, the end of the Vietnam War, the aftermath of the war between Bangladesh and Pakistan and other regional issues.[2]

This was the first meeting in which Grenada participated.

## Participants

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The following nations were represented:[3]

Nation  | Name  | Position

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Jamaica | Michael Manley (Chairman)  | Prime Minister
Australia | Gough Whitlam | Prime Minister
Bahamas | Lynden Pindling | Prime Minister
Bangladesh | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | President
Barbados | Errol Barrow | Prime Minister
Botswana | Sir Seretse Khama | President
Canada | Pierre Trudeau | Prime Minister
Cyprus | Makarios III | President
Fiji | Sir Kamisese Mara | Prime Minister
The Gambia | Sir Dawda Jawara | President
Ghana | Kwame Baah | Commissioner for Foreign Affairs
Grenada | Eric Gairy | Prime Minister
Guyana | Forbes Burnham | Prime Minister
India | Indira Gandhi | Prime Minister
Kenya | Daniel arap Moi | Vice President
Lesotho | Leabua Jonathan | Prime Minister
Malawi | Dick Matenje | Minister of Finance
Malaysia | Abdul Razak Hussein | Prime Minister
Malta | Dom Mintoff | Prime Minister
Mauritius | Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam | Prime Minister
New Zealand | Bill Rowling | Prime Minister
Nigeria | Yakubu Gowon | Head of the Federal Military Government
Sierra Leone | Siaka Stevens | President
Sri Lanka | Sirimavo Bandaranaike | Prime Minister
Singapore | Lee Kuan Yew | Prime Minister
Swaziland | Makhosini Dlamini | Prime Minister
Tanzania | Julius Nyerere | President
Tonga | Fatafehi Tuʻipelehake | Prime Minister
Trinidad and Tobago | Kamaluddin Mohammed  | Minister of Health and Leader of the House of Representatives
Uganda | Khalid Younis Kinene  | Permanent Representative to the UN
United Kingdom | Harold Wilson | Prime Minister
Western Samoa | Fiamē Mataʻafa Faumuina Mulinuʻu II | Prime Minister
Zambia | Kenneth Kaunda | President

## References

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1. ^ a b "THE COMMONWEALTH CONFERENCE". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 13 May 1975.
2. ^ Secretariat, Commonwealth (1987). The Commonwealth at the Summit: Communiqués of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings, 1944-1986. Commonwealth Secretariat. ISBN 9780850923179.
3. ^ "MEETING OF COMMONWEALTH PRIME MINISTERS, 1975 - FINAL COMMUNIQUE", Commonwealth Library

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