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URGENT PROBLEMS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION
 AND THE STRUGGLE OF THE CPSU FOR THE SOLIDARITY
 OF THE WORLDWIDE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT

(Material on the results of the April 1968 Plenum of the
 Central Committee of the CPSU)

1. On 9 - 10 April of this year, there took place a
 plenary session of the Central Committee of the CPSU which
 considered the question of "urgent problems of the international
 situation and the struggle of the CPSU for the
 solidarity of the worldwide communist movement." In an
 address on this question delivered to the Plenum by
 General Secretary of the CC/CPSU, Comrade L. I. Brezhnev,
 in the name of the Politburo of the Central Committee, an
 analysis of the more important international questions which
 have occupied the Politburo in recent months was presented.
 The speech dealt with the results of the Consultative Meeting
 of communist and workers' parties [held in Budapest
 26 February-5 March 1968], with the work of the Conference
 of the Political Consultative Committee of the Warsaw Pact
 member states [held in Sofia on 6 and 7 March 1968], with
 the meeting of the representatives of the six fraternal parties
 of socialist countries in Dresden [23-24 March 1968],
 with several questions relating to the international situation
 and with problems which have recently arisen in certain
 socialist countries.

2. Comrade Brezhnev noted that in recent years plenary
 sessions of the Central Committee have systematically considered
 the more important questions of the Soviet Union's
 foreign policy and of the activity of our Party in the
 worldwide communist movement. The general analysis of the
 international situation and the revolutionary movement which
 was presented at the 23rd Congress of the CPSU [March-April
 1966], at the December 1966 and June 1967 plenary sessions
 of the Central Committee, in the address on the 50th Anniversary
 of the October Revolution, and the conclusions made
 in the documents of these meetings are confirmed by the entire
 succeeding course of events. Therefore, there was no
 necessity at this Plenum to return to all the questions
 which had been examined at the Congress and subsequent plenary
 sessions. The Central Committee and the Soviet Government
 are consistently implementing the general line of struggle
 for peace, against Imperialism, for the solidarity of the
 socialist countries, for the international communist movement,
 and for all contemporary revolutionary forces.

3. International relations and the worldwide communist
 [Illegible text] are in constant development. Complex and sometimes

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