Moscow Communique Not Controversial

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32018, 19 June 1969, Page 17

Moscow Communique Not Controversial

GV.Z.P.A. -Reuter—Copyright) MOSCOW, June 18. The world Communist conference steered clear of controversy over the Chinese-Soviet dispute and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in its main document, published in summary form tonight.

The only reference to dissidents from Sovietstyle communism was emphasis on the need for struggle against all deviations from MarxismLeninism.

China came in for a brief mention in a call for “the restoration of the lawful rights of the People’s Republic of Cbina in the United Nations, and the return of Taiwan, at present under United States military occupation.”

The main points of the lengthy document were calls for Communist unity against imperialism, co-existence between States regardless of social systems, development of an effective European security system, and efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and eventually to ban them.

The document went to some length in defining relations between Communist parties, which it said were fully independent in their own policies and methods.

“At the same time, the di verse conditions in which the Communist parties operate, the different approaches to practical tasks and even differences on certain questions must not hinder concerted in temational action by fraternal parties, particularly on the basic problems of the antiimperialist struggle,” it said The United States, Brr tain, France, and West Ger many were listed as imperialists and “Italian monopoly capital” was linked with them.

The conference called for a big protest movement against racism in the United States, Africa and Rhodesia, and “the persecution of the Arab population in occupied territory and in Israel,” as well as against Zionism and anti-semitism. It asked for world Communist efforts to secure the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam and

achieve success at the Paris talks and to support the National Liberation Front’s peace plan. Existing European frontiers must remain inviolate, it said.

Delegations from 14 Communist parties withheld their full support for the document.

Only one delegation, that of the Dominican Republic, refused outright to sign the document Two others, the Swedes and Cubans, came as observers and did not sign either.

Delegations from Britain, Norway and the French Indian Ocean colony of Reunion have said that they would have to consult with their central committees after their return home before deciding whether to sign.

The Italian, Australian and San Marino delegations appended statements to the main document saying that they would approve only the third section, which deals with the

tasks of the anti-imperialist struggle. . They rejected the Sovietbacked analysis of the international situation, a prescription for relations between parties and a section on relations with non-Communist forces.

The Rumanian, Swiss and Spanish delegations signed with reservations, which were also to be issued with the document itself, sources said. The Sudanese and Moroccan parties had only minor reservations about a section dealing with the Middle East.

One conference mystery was cleared up when two underground delegations which had never been named in official reports of the proceedings were inadvertently identified.

The two parties were from Nepal and the Philippines. Correspondents who were escorted through a meeting room saw the names on cards to the apparent chagrin of conference officials.