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out by the CPSU and fraternal parties, 70 fraternal parties
 firmly took a stand in favor of calling a new Conference.

13. During the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of
 the October Revolution, when the delegations of many fraternal
 parties were present in Moscow, an agreement was
 reached whereby 18 parties, including the CPSU, would come
 out as initiators of the Consultative Meeting. The text of
 an announcement of its convocation was drafted collectively
 and published on 25 November of last year.

14. In the course of the consultations, the Politbure
 took careful account of the moods in the various parties.
 The position which should be taken at the Consultative
 Meeting was discussed several times in the Central Committee,
 and directives were drawn up for our delegation. Their essence
 was to work in Budapest for the following major goals:

1) To secure to the extent possible a unanimous
 decision to hold an International Conference
 this year;

2) To coordinate an agenda for the Conference
 which would be directed at achievement of unified
 action by the communist parties with respect to
 the main thrust of the revolutionary movement -
 the struggle against imperialism, for peace and
 national independence, for the interests of the
 working class and socialism.

15. Delegations from 67 parties participated in the
 Consultative Meeting, which took place in Budapest from
 26 February to 5 March. There were different reasons for
 the absence of a number of parties from the Meeting.

16. The Communist Party of Indonesia suffered a grave
 [Illegible text] It has no unified directing center
 at the present time. But the participants of the Budapest
 [Illegible text] received two letters from underground communist
 groups in Indonesia which expressed full support for the
 Meeting and for the idea of calling a Conference.

17. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of
 East Pakistan also entirely supported the idea of convoking
 a [Illegible text] Meeting and Conference, but stated that it
 [Illegible text] not dispatch its delegation to Budapest because of
 the difficult conditions of the Party's underground work.

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