BREZHNEV MESSAGE TO ALGERIAN PRESIDENT URGES AID TO ARABS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-184-6-25-4
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 5, 2012
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: October 9, 1973
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2012/12/05: LOC-HAK-184-6-25-4
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BREZHNEV MESSAGE TO ALGERIAN PRESIDENT URGES AID TO ARABS
L091350 ALGIERS DOMESTIC SERVICE IN FRENCH 1300 GMT 9 OCT 73 L
(TEXT) LATE LAST NIGHT PRESIDENT HOUARI BOUMEDIENE RECEIVED
THE SOVIET AMBASSADOR, WHO HANDED HIM AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM
THE OPSU CENTRAL COMMITTEE GENERAL SECRETARY ON THE MIDDLE EAST
SITUATION. THE MESSAGE READS:
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE NEW MILITARY FLARE-UP IN THE MIDDLE
EAST LIES E.NTIRELY AND COMPLETELY WITH THE TEL Ayiy_LEAlgas.
WHIZ ENJOYING*SUPPORT AND PROTECTION FaabLIMPERIALZSI-CI4CLES,
ISRAEL CONTINUES ITS AGGRESSION AGAINST THE ARABS BEGUN IN
1967, FOILS ALL EFFORTS AIMED AT ESTABLISHING A JUST PEACE IN
THE MIDDLE EAST, AND DELIVERATELY STAGES PROVOCATIONS, INCLUDING
ARMED PROVOCATIONS, AGAINST SYRIA, EGYPT AND LEBANON, THUS
EXACERBATING THE SITUATION IN THIS REGION TO THE EXTREME.
I BELIEVE, COMRADE PRESIDENT, THAT YOU WILL AGREE THAT, IN THE
STRUGGLE NOW BEING WAGED AGAINST ISRAELI AGGRESSION FOR THE
LLIBERATION OF ARAB TERRITORIES OCCUPIED IN 1967 AND THE
SAFEGUARDING OF THE LEGITIMATE RIGHTS OF THE ARAB PEOPLE OF
PALESTINE,,BATERNAL.ARAB SOLIDARITY CAN PLAY A DECISIVE ROLE
AS NEVER BEFORE. SYRIA AND-EGYPT MU-S'I NTE ALINTE?T-4-THEIR.
STRUGGLE AGAINST A TREACHEROUS ENEMY. THERE IS AN URGENT
NEED FOR THE GREATEST POSSI4Li_AID AND SUPPORT OF TRE PROGRESSIVE
REGIMES IN THESE CO-BTRIks, WHICH, LIKE ALGERIA, (7 ARE THE HOPE)
FOR PROGRESS AND FREEDOM IN THE ARAB WORLD.
THE CPSU CENTRAL COMMITTEE AND THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT ARE
FIRMLY CONVINCED THAT THE ALGERIAN LEADERS, WHO HAVE EXTENSIVE
EXPERIENCE IN THE ANTI-IMPERIALISTS STRUGGLE, UNDERSTAND FULL
WELL ALL THE PECULARITIES OF THE PRESENT SITUATION AND THAT,
GUIDED BY THE IDEALS OF FRATERNAL SOLIDARITY, WILL USE ALL MEANS
1 AT THEIRJILVD4ALAAND TAKE ALL THE REQUIRED s1=77117F-A-11-51-TO
:SUPPORTING SYRIA AND OGYP1' IN THE DIFFICULT -STRuGGLE-TgisUSED
BY THE ISRAELI AGGRESSOR.
DEAR COMRADE PRESIDENT, YOUR HIGH PERSONAL PRESTIGE IN THE THIRD
WORLD COUNTRIES, WHICH PARTICULARLY CONTRIBUTED TO THE GREAT SUCCESS
OF THE FOURTH NONAL1NED CONFERENCE, UNDOUBTEDLY GIVES YOU THE
MEANS OF ACTING WITH THE ARAB STATES WITH A VIEW TO BRINGING
ABOUT A UNITED STAND IN THE FACE OF COMMON DANGER.
AS FOR THE SOVIET UNION, IT GIVES ALL-ROUND AID AND SUPPORT
TO THE FRIENDLY ARAB STATES IN THEIR JUST STRUGGLE AGAINST
IMPERIALIST ISRAELI AGGRESSION.
9 OCT 1458Z PK/WP
MORI/CDF
C05510030
No Objection to Declassification in Full 2012/12/05: LOC-HAK-184-6-25-4