The 1975 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting was the third
Meeting
A meeting is when two or more people come together to discuss one or more topics, often in a formal or business setting, but meetings also occur in a variety of other environments. Meetings can be used as form of group decision making.
Defini ...
of the
Heads of Government
The head of government is the highest or the second-highest official in the executive branch of a sovereign state, a federated state, or a self-governing colony, autonomous region, or other government who often presides over a cabinet, a gro ...
of the
Commonwealth of Nations. It was held in
Kingston
Kingston may refer to:
Places
* List of places called Kingston, including the five most populated:
** Kingston, Jamaica
** Kingston upon Hull, England
** City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia
** Kingston, Ontario, Canada
** Kingston upon Thames, ...
,
Jamaica, between 29 April 1975 and 6 May 1975, and was hosted by that country's
Prime Minister,
Michael Manley.
Among the topics discussed were
nuclear disarmament, the situation in
Rhodesia
Rhodesia (, ), officially from 1970 the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was the ''de facto'' successor state to the British colony of S ...
,
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.
References
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
20th-century diplomatic conferences
1975 in international relations
Jamaica and the Commonwealth of Nations
20th century in Kingston, Jamaica
1975 conferences
April 1975 events in North America
May 1975 events in North America
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