BERLIN 'CANNOT' BELONG TO WEST GERMANY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP05-01559R000400370113-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2012
• Sequence Number: 113
• Publication Date: September 5, 1976
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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III. 7 Sep 76 B 7 USSR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
WEST EUROPE & CANADA
The four-power agreement is the best balance of the sides' interests possible under the
present conditions. To change this balance or to.disrupt the internal equilibrium of
its component parts would mean jeopardizing the implementation of the agreement as a
whole. This is precisely why?it is necessary to display a careful attitide toward it.
Any attempts to test its durability or gradually undermine particular resolutions._of _it
do not accord with the interests of mutual understanding and cooperation and do not serve
the cause of consolidating peace and detente in Europe.
The Soviet Union has consistently advocated and continues to advocate strict. observance
of every part of the four-power agreement. This position is dictated by profound concern
for European security and for maintaining good-neighborliness and mutual understanding
in the region where the agreement applies. Assessing positively the cooperation displayed
on this question with the United States, France and Britain, the Soviet side consistently
advocates that the agreement be really. respected by everyone and that West Berlin live
a calm, normal lips.
This is an entirely attainable goal given the renunciation of policy lines based an con-
siderations of expediency and of the fruitless attempts to infringe. the legitimate rights
of the USSR and the'GDR.and to obtain any one-sided advantages whatever. West Berlin
has not been a part of the FRO, nor.will it be one. However, it can and must be trans-
formed from a source of disputes into a constructive element in peace and detente on. the
European Continent. The conditions for this have been created, as L.I. Brezhnev, general-
secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, stressed in his report to the 25th CPSU Congress.
The task consists of utilizing them through joint efforts for the good. of peace in Europe.
BERLIN (CANNOT' BELONG TO WEST GERMANY
Moscow Domestic Service in Russian 2030 GMT 5 Sep 76 LD
[Georgiy Smelenohuk reports]
[Text] West Berlin--Less than a week has passed since the CDU.Saar organization held
its illegal rally here., and now another batch of cold .war supporters has arrived: members
of the (?Hesse) regional organization of the CDU,. Tomorrow they intend to hold their
working session in West Berlin, far beyond the FRG,border. The provocative nature of
the actions of the political hacks of the CDU is obvious: they have chosen West Berlin
as a bridgehead to incite tension and undermine the basic principles of the historic
quadripartite agreement on the city. In defiance of the real state of affairs, they
stubbornly try to prove that West Berlin is a part of the FRG. However, the city, as
is known, has never belonged, and cannot belong, to the Federal Republic.
TASS: MEMBERSHIP OF ITALIAN COMMUNIST PARTY GROWS
Moscow TASS in English 0650 GMT 6,Sep 76 LD
[Text] Rome, September 6, TASS--The: membership of the Italian Communist Party and the
Italian Communist Youth Federation keeps growing. By August 31,,the Italian Communist
Party'had a membership.of 1,806,000. Over. 170,000 new members joined the Communist Party
this year, more than in any of the .previous 26 years. The Italian Communist Youth Federa-
tion has now a membership of over 140,000.
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III. 7Sep76 USSR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Fl
MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA
PODGORNYY, QATARI A MIR EXCHANGE GREETINGS
Moscow in Arabic to the Arab World 1230 OW 4 Sep 76 LD
[Text] On the occasion of the national day of Qatar, Independence Day, Nikdlay Podgornyy,
chairman of the Supreme Soviet Presidiums, sent a greetings cable to Amir of Qatar Shaykh
Khalifah ibn Hamad Al Thani in which he expressed his best wished to the friendly Qatari
people.
In his reply the amir of Qatar expressed his thanks for the congratulations and extended
to the friendly Soviet people.his wished for further progress and prosperity.
VADER-LED DELEGATION ENDS VISIT TO LIBYA
abets With Al-Qadhdhafi
Moscow TASS in English 1558 GMT 3 Sep 76 LD
[Text] Tripoli, September 3, TASS--Mlitammar al-Qadhdhafi, chairman of the Revolutionary
Command Council of the Libyan Arab Republic, and a Soviet state delegation led by Artur
Vader, vice president of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, had a meeting
here.
The delegation is staying here to attend celebrations on the occasion of the sevenths
anniversary of the Libyan revolution.
Moscow TASS in French 1205 G? 6 Sep 76 LD
[Text] Tripoli, September 6, TASS--The USSR state delegation led by Vice President of
the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet Artur Vader ended its official visit here. The
Soviet delegation attended the celebrations to mark the seventh anniversary of the Libyan
revolution. In the course of the visit, the Soviet delegation was received by chairman
of the Libyan Revolutionary Command Council Mxtammar al-Qadhdhafi, member of the Revolutio.4
nary, Command Council, prime minister'of Libya A.S. Jallud and other Libyan leaders.
AL-QADHDHAFI INTERVIEW IN ROSE AL-YUSUF CITED '7
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Moscow TASS in English 1809 GMs 6 Sep 76 LD
["The Soviet Union Is a Friend of the Arabs"--TASS headline]
[Text] Cairo, September 7, TASS--In an interview to a correspondent of the Egyptian
weekly ROSE AL-YUSUF, the chairman of Libyans Revolutionary Command Council Mxtammar
Al-Qadhdhufie stressed that "the Soviet Union is a friend of the Arabs, a friend also of
us, Libyans". He condemned the anti-Soviet campaign started by the Egyptian propaganda
media. "The-Egyptian press attacks P iendship between Libya and the USSR in such a manner
as though there is no difference between Egyptian newspapers and the New York TINES, he
said. "Has your press become a mouthpiece of America?--Al-Qadhdhafi asked his inter-
Touching on the lately aggravated Egyptian-Libyan relations the chairman of Libyans Revo-
lutionary Command Council recalled that Libya had given Egypt much assistance by supplying
modern armaments during the October war. Now the Egyptians have moved most of this mili-
tary hardware to the Libyan border, he said. Al-Qadhdhafi emphasized again that Libya
has no intention of fighting with Egypt or any other Arab state.
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