JUGOSLA VIA WARMER

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30793, 3 July 1965, Page 15

JUGOSLA VIA WARMER

(N.Z. Prest Association— Copyright)

MOSCOW, July

For the first time in years, Jugc Javia may be willing to attend meeting: »f groups of the world’s Communis, parties, Western observers in Moscow said today.

The observers read this interpretation into a joint Soviet-Jugoslav communique issued yesterday at the conclusion of President Tito’s two-week visit to Russia.

In the communique, President Tito agreed on the need for “comradely discussions” among all Communist parties “oh the most vital problems of the day and their solution on the basis of Marxism-Len-inism and Socialist internationalism.” Russia called an international conference of 19 Communist parties in Moscow last March, apparently to lay the groundwork for ejecting the Chinese People’s Republic from the world Communist movement. Jugoslavia, which has ignored similar conferences since 1957, was not invited to the March meeting and did not attend. The Moscow conference ended in agreement to hold occasional “consultative” meetings to be followed eventually by a world Communist summit conference. The observers said yester-

day's communique indicated that President Tito now may be willing to join in the “consultative” meetings. They said that if that were true, the Kremlin may have won a new convert to its reported plans to take decisive action against- the Chinese People’s Republic. in the communique, President Tito in effect backed Moscow’s appeal for Communist unity “in the face of Imperialist danger.” China has spurned such pleas in the past. President Tito also lined up Jugoslavia solidly behind the Kremlin on other issues.