Challenge to China
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter)
MOSCOW, Feb. 23,
The Soviet Union has urged China to take genuinely constructive measures to improve its relations with Moscow if it is sincere in assertions that ideological quarrels should not mar normal mutual ties.
The call, in a clearly authoritative article in “Pravda,” the party newspaper,. appeared timed to coincide with border talks now being held in Peking to settle the two countries’ bitter territorial feud.
The chief Soviet negotiator, the Deputy Foreign Minister (Mr Leonid Ilyichev), flew to China last week to resume the talks, which have been stalled for five years amid mutual recriminations of deafness to constructive proposals.
“Pravda,” in its 3000-word unsigned article, quoted Premier Chou En-lai as telling the Tenth People’s Congress last month that arguments between the two Communist countries would not obstruct the maintenance of normal mutual relations.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33776, 24 February 1975, Page 8
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140Challenge to China Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33776, 24 February 1975, Page 8
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