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 Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley.
Among the topics discussed were nuclear disarmament, the situation in Rhodesia and South Africa, 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.
This was the first meeting in which Grenada participated.
Participants The following nations were represented: Nation Name Position Michael Manley (Chairman) Prime Minister Gough Whitlam Prime Minister Lynden Pindling Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman President Errol Barrow Prime Minister Sir Seretse Khama President Pierre Trudeau Prime Minister Makarios III President Sir Kamisese Mara Prime Minister Sir Dawda Jawara President Kwame Baah Commissioner for Foreign Affairs Eric Gairy Prime Minister Forbes Burnham Prime Minister Indira Gandhi Prime Minister Daniel arap Moi Vice President Leabua Jonathan Prime Minister Dick Matenje Minister of Finance Abdul Razak Hussein Prime Minister Dom Mintoff Prime Minister Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Prime Minister Bill Rowling Prime Minister Yakubu Gowon Head of the Federal Military Government Siaka Stevens President Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew Prime Minister Makhosini Dlamini Prime Minister Julius Nyerere President Fatafehi Tuʻipelehake Prime Minister Kamaluddin Mohammed Minister of Health and Leader of the House of Representatives Khalid Younis Kinene Permanent Representative to the UN Harold Wilson Prime Minister Fiamē Mataʻafa Faumuina Mulinuʻu II Prime Minister Kenneth Kaunda President
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