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44. Moreover, at this Meeting, standards of equality
 and comradely cooperation between communist parties were
 subjected to serious practical verification. This dissipated
 the doubts of certain parties as to whether conditions
 had sufficiently matured for the successful discussion
 and resolution of common problems at an international
 forum of communists.

45. Together with this, the Meeting again showed
 that there exist a considerable number of immature, erroneous
 concepts, manifestations of right and "left"
 opportunism against which it is necessary to conduct a
 constant struggle in attaining the solidarity of the
 worldwide communist movement.

46. It is an indisputable fact that the Budapest
 Meeting again confirmed the role of the CPSU as the largest
 and most authoritative force in the communist movement.
 The representatives of many fraternal parties spoke of this
 at the Meeting.

47. Now that the question of convoking a Conference
 has been decided, our Party is faced with problems which
 are no less complex. It is necessary to realize clearly
 that the main difficulties are still ahead. Much patience
 and strength will be required in order to prepare for the
 Conference well, to attain correct decisions in the face
 of [Illegible text] of nuances of opinions. To prepare the Conference
 and to conduct it on a high level is the basic political
 task of our Party during the impending period of struggle
 for the solidarity of the international communist movement.

48. The commission for the preparation of the Conference
 is assembling in Budapest on 24 April. It will
 have to solve serious problems: definitively to decide
 the composition of the participants at the Conference, to
 determine the exact date when it will be conducted. The
 major work of the commission is the preparation of draft
 documents for the forthcoming Conference.

49. The experience of the Consultative Meeting
 demonstrated convincingly that the success of the whole
 affair [Illegible text] depend in no small degree on the initiative
 of our [Illegible text] on its activeness, on the strength of our
 [Illegible text] on being able to anticipate possible difficulties.
 The correct direction in the preparation of the

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