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unexpected events are constantly encountered. Therefore,
 great attention to international problems, rapid and timely
 reaction to new phenomena and processes, and unceasing improvement
 in all our foreign policy activity are required
 from the Central Committee and the Politburo of the Central
 Committee.

I

Results of the Consultative Meeting and Problems in the Preparations
 for the International Conference of Communist and
 Workers' Parties

4. In October 1966, our Party posed the question of
 the possibility of convening an international conference
 of communist and workers' parties. Since then, much work
 has been accomplished in bilateral and collective meetings
 with fraternal parties. The CC/CPSU held not one, but two,
 three or more meetings with some of them - and even as many
 as five meetings were held with some of them, devoted to
 this question.

5. From the beginning of 1967 and up to the beginning
 of the Consultative Meeting in Budapest, the CC/CPSU
 held about 100 bilateral consultations with representatives
 of more than 60 fraternal parties. As a rule, the consultations
 were conducted by members of the Politburo and
 Secretaries of the Central Committee.

6. This work was not easy. The problem was that,
 along with a large number of parties, primarily those of
 the socialist countries of Europe (except Rumania and
 Albania), with whom common positions and unity of views
 were quickly found on the necessity of convening a new conference
 there was also a not inconsiderable number of
 parties which hesitated or even openly opposed the calling
 of a conference at the time when the question was posed.
 Many of them justified their position - with various nuances,
 of [Illegible text] - with the stand that holding the conference without
 the Communist Party of China and several other parties under
 its influence would allegedly not further the strengthening
 of unity of the international communist movement.

[Illegible text] The Politburo of [Illegible text]
 [Illegible text]above all the [Illegible text] as a result of
 the [Illegible text] position of the MAO Tse-tung group, would not
 [Illegible text] in the conference but would take all
 [Illegible text] In the course of

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