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in eo Including the produc-
by 414 © means of production
Mo cons” and the production
| i Mer goods by 44-48%,
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with 87-90% of the
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tion prcds of the popula-
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1975 is to be brought
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Capital investments in the
national economy in the five-
year period will increase by 36-
40%.

It is planned to ensure a new
considerable rise of the peo-
ple’s welfare. The wages and
salaries of workers and office
employees will be raised on an
average by 20-22%, the remu-
neration of farmers’ work on
the cooperative farms — by
30-35%.

The minimum monthly wage
and salary of workers and office
employees in all the branches
of the national economy and in
all the regions of the country
within the five-year period is to
to raised to 70 roubles. It is

also planned to increase the

basic wage rate and salaries of
middle-bracket working people.

The directives point out that
in the non-production spheres
first of all the salaries of doc-
tors, school teachers and teach-
ers at kindergartens and nur-
series should be raised.

The program envisages also a
reduction of taxation, and great-
er benefits to working mothers.

It is also planned in this five-
year period to improve the ma-
terial welfare of larger families.
The task is set of improving
social insurance. The minimum
amount of old age and invalid’s
pensions will grow. Besides, the
scholarship grants at institutes
and specialized
schools will also be raised.

It is planned to construct resi-
dential buildings with a total
floor space of 565-575 million
square metres. Attention is
drawn to the need to improve
the quality of building.

Eastern Areas

The. directives provide for
enhancing the role of the re-
publics and local government
bodies in the solution of. prob-
lems relating to the location of
the productive forces.

The further accelerated de-
velopment of the natural re-
sources of the eastern regions
of the country and the build-up
of their economic potential shall
be regarded as an extremely im-
portant task in the location of
the productive forces and the
improvement of territorial pro-
portions in the national econo-
my. In view of the availability
of cheaper power resources in
Siberia, Kazakhstan and Central
Asia new industries consuming
large quantities of electric pow-
er shall be situated chiefly in
these areas. The building matc-
rials industry and construction
industry shall be developed in
the eastern areas at an acceler-
ated pace...

The line toward containing
the growth of large cities shall
be steadfastly pursued. As a
rule, no industrial enterprise
with the exception of projects
serving the population and the
municipal economy, shall be
located in these cities.

Socialist Camp

The directives set the task of
“consistently developing cooper-
ation with the socialist count-
ries and strengthening in every
way the world system of so-
cialism”’.

Economic, scientific and tech-
nical ties of the Soviet Union
with other socialist countries,
aimed at further strengthening

secondary

of Soviet peopl

Alexei Kosygin, member of the Presidium of the Communist Party of the Soviet Biter Sad Chaire
man of the Council of Ministers (Premier) of the USSR, presented the

Year Plan to the 24th CPSU Congress.

cooperation and consistent de-
velopment of the integration of
the economies of CMEA count-
tries, shall be improved and ex-
tended in every way. The direc-
tives provide for a planned
development of comprehensive
forms of cooperation with other
socialist countries, which en-
compass the spheres of material
production, science and tech-
nology, exchange of goods and
trade in the markets of third
countries.

The directives say: “. . . The
line shall be applied of further
developing international cooper-
ation in production and efficient
forms of specialization in in-
dustry and agriculture, of pool-
ing to mutual benefit the re-
sources of the interested social-
ist countries to develop the fuel
and power and raw material
producing industries in order to
satisfy more fully the needs in
the output of these sectors, of
developing and rationalizing the
means of transport and com-
munication to ensure the grow-
ing exchange of goods and
with an eye to technical prog-
ress in these sectors.”

World Ties

Development of stable exter-
nal economic, scientific and

technical ties with developing
Asian, African and Latin Ame-
rican countries shall be con-
tinued on terms of mutual
benefit and in the interests of
strengthening their economic
independence.

The Soviet Union will extend
“economically justified external
trade, scientific and technical
ties with industrially developed
capitalist countries which show
willingness to develop coopera-
tion with the Soviet Union in
these spheres.”

The volume of foreign trade
is to grow by 33-35%, first of
all through the utmost expan-
sion of trade with socialist
countries. ;

The directives provide for en-
suring the further improvement
of the system of planning and
economic stimulation of produc-
tion, for completing in the new
five-year period the change-
over of all the cost-accounting
enterprises and organizations,
sectors of material production
and the service sphere to new
methods of planning and eco-
nomic stimulation.

With the purpose of improv-
ing planning in the national
economy and management, the
wide employment of economico-
mathematical methods and the

draft directives of the new Five-

use of electronic computers and
organizational techniques and
means of communication, shall
be ensured.

“The Five-Year Plan will
ensure a further growth of the
Soviet Union’s defense might
which will make it possible to
protect still more reliably the
Soviet people, all the countries
of the socialist community,
from the danger of imperialist
aggression and strengthen the
positions of the peace-loving
and liberation forces throughout
the world.”

The 24th Congress of the
CPSU expressed the certainty
that the working people of the
Soviet Union “will bend every
effort not only to successfully
fulfil, but also to overfufil the
tasks of the new Five-Year
Plan.”

The Congress decision on the
directives entrusts the Council
of Ministers of the USSR with
drawing up, on the basis of the
directives, the economic de-
velopment plan of the Soviet
Union for 1971-1975 before
August 1 this year.

. The draft of the new Five-
Year Plan is to be submitted
for examination to the Supreme
Soviet of the USSR before
Sept. 1.

‘Supported by the entire people

MOSCOW—“For 10 days, the
eyes of the world were glued to
this hall, for the enormous role

of the socialist countries and
Communist parties, our socialist
power, our Leninist party in the
historical process has been long
realized all over the planet,”
stated CPSU General Secretary
Leonid Brezhnev in his closing
remarks at the 24th Congress.
The documents of the congress
and the speeches of the delegates
were “a worthy reflection of the
immense all-round experience of
the party, of its collective wis-
dom,” he said and “will long
remain in the focus of the ideo-
logical and theoretical life of the
party and the people.”

Stating that the congress had
armed the CPSU and the entire
Soviet people with a clear-cut
political program for the coming
period,” he summed it up as fol-
lows:

“In the field of economic pol-
icy, the Party’s line is aimed at
improving the living conditions
e. While not les-

sening attention given to the de-
velopment of heavy industry, in-
cluding its defense branches, the
Party advances the considerable
raising of the living standards
of working people as the main
practical task of the entire eco-
nomic work.”

“In the domain of social pol-
icy the Party line is aimed at
the further strengthening of the
unity of Soviet society, of bring-
ing closer together the classes
and social groups, all the peoples
and nationalities comprising
Soviet society. It is a line of
consistent development of Soviet
democracy, of enlisting ever
broader masses for the solution
of public and state matters.”

“Tt is,” he said “a line aimed
at raising the communist con-
sciousness of the working peo-
ple, the development of science
and culture, the intellectual de-
velopment of Soviet man, the as-
sertion of the moral and political
atmosphere in the country in
which people find it easy to
breathe, joyous to work and
peaceful to live.”

In the domain of Party devel-
opment it is a line of perfecting
methods of party leadership of
society, of strict observance of
Leninist norms of party life, of
the all-out strengthening of the
party’s bonds with the working
rics and the entire Soviet peo-
ple.
In the domain of foreign pol-
icy, said Brezhnev, the Party
pursues a line of peace and inter-
national security, of strengthen-
ing the fraternity of the coun-
tries of socialism and of alliance
with the liberation and _anti-
imperialist forces of the world.
It can already be said that the
program of struggle for peace,
freedom and the independence
of the peoples, set forth by the
24th Congress has met with the
broadest response on all the con-
tinents of the globe, he declared.

Thus, pointed out the general
secretary of the CPSU Central
Committee, the most vital, most
crucial interests of the Soviet
people are in the very focus of
the action program worked out
by the Congress.

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