Declaration of St James's Palace

First Inter-Allied Conference Declaration of St James's Palace
Host country	United Kingdom
Date	12 June 1941
Venue(s)	St James's Palace
Cities	London
Participants	United Kingdom  Canada  Australia New Zealand  South Africa Belgian government in exile Czechoslovak provisional government-in-exile Greek government-in-exile Luxembourg government-in-exile Dutch government-in-exile Norwegian government-in-exile Polish government-in-exile Yugoslav government-in-exile Free French National Committee
Precedes	Atlantic Conference
Key points
No separate peace with the Axis powers, commitment to a peace based on "willing co-operation of free peoples"

The Declaration of St James's Palace, or London Declaration,^[1] was the first joint statement of goals and principles by the Allied Powers during World War II.^[2] The declaration was issued after the first Inter-Allied Conference at St James's Palace in London on 12 June 1941. Representatives of the United Kingdom, the four co-belligerent Commonwealth Dominions (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa), the eight governments in exile (Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Yugoslavia) and Free France were parties to the declaration. It stated the Allies' commitment to continue the war against the Axis Powers (Germany and Italy) and established principles to serve as the basis of a future peace.