1962 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference

12th Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference
Host country	United Kingdom
Dates	10–19 September 1962
Cities	London
Participants	16
Chair	Harold Macmillan (Prime Minister)
Follows	1961
Precedes	1964
Key points
British negotiations to enter EEC and impact on Commonwealth trade,

The 1962 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference^[1] was the twelfth Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was held in the United Kingdom in September 1962,^[2] and was hosted by that country's Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan.

This meeting saw the expansion of the Commonwealth to include several newly sovereign countries in Africa and the Caribbean.

The main topic of discussion was the British governments negotiations to join the European Economic Community and concerns by Commonwealth nations of the impact of such a move on trade between Britain and the Commonwealth.

Participants

Nation	Name	Portfolio
United Kingdom	Harold Macmillan	Prime Minister (Chairman)
Australia	Robert Menzies	Prime Minister
Canada	John Diefenbaker	Prime Minister
Ceylon	S.P.C. Fernando	Justice Minister
Cyprus	Archbishop Makarios III	President
Ghana	F.K.D. Goka	Finance Minister
India	Jawaharlal Nehru	Prime Minister
Jamaica	Sir Alexander Bustamante	Prime Minister
Malaya	Abdul Razak Hussein	Deputy Prime Minister
New Zealand	Keith Holyoake	Prime Minister
Nigeria	Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa	Prime Minister
Pakistan	Ayub Khan	President
Rhodesia and Nyasaland	Sir Roy Welensky	Prime Minister
Sierra Leone	Sir Milton Margai	Prime Minister
Tanganyika	Rashidi Kawawa	Prime Minister
Trinidad and Tobago	Eric Williams	Prime Minister

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