EAST EUROPE BRANCH NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B00864A001400010013-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: August 8, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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#98 EAST EUROPE BRANCH NOTES OCI #0607/74
8 August 1974
ROMANIA
'Romanian's- 'Call' E'or` Net 'SOCi a 7 s k` Nni `ty
Yesterday's editorial in .the Romanian party daily
`S'cinteia sets the stage for the publication later, this month
of .Buc arest's new party program. . The program is. expected
to reiterate and sharpen many of the points made in the so-
called "declaration of independence" of. April 1964,.
The'.Scinteia.editorial appeared against the backgrop
of Foreign Minister Mac.ove.scu's current.visit.to Peking and
reports of increased Soviet pressure on Bucharest. The paper
calls for a. new "superior" form of .socialist unity to over-
come differences and .tensions. According. .to.. the author,
differences between fraternal parties should be resolved in
direct party-to-party. contacts and in a "spirit of mutual
esteem and respect" rather than by..condemning. each other.
.The editorial: concludes with what.is now standard fare
for the Romanians, that party relations must be based on
"the rules. of full. equality among all parties, noninter-
ference in the internal affairs (of others, and the) ob.se:r-
vance of every party's independence in accordance with the
specific conditions. of its own country..."
Romanian 'Defense' Minister Agree'abTe 'to` US` Visit
Defense Minister Ionita told .the US ambassador on August 6
that he would welcome and accept an invitation to. visit this
country. Ionita would be the first post-war Romanian defense
minister .to come .to the US. I.onita said Romania desires to 25X1
expand military. contacts with many nations, including the US and
volunteered that he would respond-favorably, and reasonably
quickly, to a written invitation.
State Dept. review completed
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