The 1962 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference was the 12th

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of the

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of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was held in the United Kingdom in September 1962, and was hosted by that country's Prime Minister,

Harold Macmillan Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British Conservative statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Caricatured as "Supermac", he ...

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

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. The main topic of discussion was the British governments negotiations to join the

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and concerns by Commonwealth nations of the impact of such a move on trade between Britain and the Commonwealth.

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1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...

Diplomatic conferences in the United Kingdom 20th-century diplomatic conferences 1962 in international relations 1962 in London United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations 1962 conferences September 1962 events in the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan Robert Menzies John Diefenbaker Jawaharlal Nehru