LAGOS TALKS
Aust. Not Going (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) CANBERRA, Jan. 6. Australia would definitely not be represented at the Commonwealth conference on Rhodesia in Lagos next week, the Prime Minister (Sir Robert Menzies) said today. “If the modern Commonwealth, on the initiative of some or many of its members, begins to claim right to intervene in and give orders in relation to matters which are the proper concern of some individual member of the Commonwealth, good relations cannot long continue, nor can the present Commonwealth structure long endure," he said.
Australia would ask to have an observer at the talks. The Commonwealth Secretary (Mr Arnold Smith) and six officials from the Londonbased Commonwealth Secretariat arrived in Lagos today to prepare for the talks. A Nigerian official said today 10 Commonwealth heads of Government had so far agreed to go to the conference. They were the leaders of Britain, Canada, Cyprus, Gambia, Jamaica. Malta, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Uganda and Nigeria. Nineteen of the 22 independent Commonwealth countries would be represented.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30952, 7 January 1966, Page 9
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