A Communist bloc summit conference that planned pro-Arab and anti-Israel strategy has just concluded in Budapest, according to the Czechoslovakian News Agency (C.T.K.).
The meeting was held with the participation of Communist Chief Leonid I, Brezhnev and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin. Attending the sessions were President Tito of Yugoslavia, Premier Todor Zhivkey of Bulgaria, Premier Jenoe Frock and Communist Leader Janos Kadar of Hungary, State Council Chairman Walter Ulbricht of East Germany, Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka and Premier Joseph Cyrankiewicz of Poland, and President Antonin Novotny and Premier Joseph Lenhart of Czechoslovakia.
The meeting ended with a declaration that the conferees “demonstrated their determination to make fuller use of the appropriate means according to the requirements of the struggle against aggression and restoration of peace in the Middle East.” They also discussed measures aimed at consolidating the defense of Arab states and long-term economic cooperation with the Arabs.
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