Polemic on General Line of International ... - From Marx to Mao

During the talks it will be possible to discuss all the questionsmentioned in your letter, questions of common intereststemming from the tasks in the struggle to implement thedecisions of the Moscow Meetings. An important role couldbe played by the discussion of the questions connected withthe consolidation of unity between the USSR and the People’sRepublic of China.In your letter you raise the Albanian and Yugoslav questions.We have already written to you that these questions,though of a basic nature, cannot and should not eclipse themain problems of our times which call for discussion at ourmeeting.Our Party, having condemned the splitting activities of theAlbanian leaders, has at the same time taken a number of stepstowards normalizing the relations between the Albanian Partyof Labour and the CPSU and other fraternal Parties. Inspite of the fact that the leaders of the Albanian Party ofLabour have recently been coming out with slanderous attackson our Party and the Soviet people, we, being guided bysupreme interests, do not relinquish the hope that the relationsbetween the CPSU and the Albanian Party of Labourmay be improved. At the end of February this year the CPSUCentral Committee once again took the initiative and suggestedto the Central Committee of the Albanian Party of Labourthat a bilateral meeting be held between representatives ofour two Parties. However, this comradely step on our partdid not meet with due response on the part of the Albanianleadership. The leaders of the Albanian Party of Labour didnot even deem it necessary to acknowledge our letter containingthe CPSU Central Committee’s proposal about thebilateral meetings. Having obviously later come to theirsenses, the Albanian leaders sent us a letter in which, aftersome reservations and stipulations, they speak of such a meeting.If real desire is in fact shown, we are ready to have ameeting.522