4 4 By FILS DELISLE Tribune Berlin Correspondent BERLIN — Socialist Berlin this week continued to be the hub of far-reaching political, diploma- tic and economic developments. Delegates to the highly suc- cessful Conference of European Communist and Workers’ Parties were still leaving for home when Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India, arrived on an notable state visit to the -German Democratic Republic. With the conclusion of Prime Minister Gandhi's visit, the pro- cession of important statesmen resumed with the arrival of high level representatives of the socialist countries for the impor- tant 30th meeting of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. The four-day visit of Prime Minister Gandhi was an event that evoked a great popular re- sponse in both India and the GDR. Leading Indian newspap- ers expressed great satisfaction at the visit and the agreement to deepen the economic and political collaboration between the two countries. The GDR press at- By JAMES LEECH The combination of youth and long experience is making a major contribution at two distinctly dif- ferent kinds of frontier projects in the People’s Republic of Mon- golia. The two projects, reported to the 17th Congress of the Mon- golian People’s Revolutionary Party, June 14-18, are avast virgin lands development, and de- velopment of a gigantic copper- molibdenum deposit in northern Mongolia. The virgin lands program is be- ing entrusted to the Revolu- tionary Youth League whose members will benefit from ex- periences of both Mongolian and Soviet agricultural experts. Erdenet, the second of the two, a name that quickens the pulse of Mongolians these days, is a joint development by Mongolia and the Soviet Union of a copper and molibdenum mining and ore dres- sing complex which will be Asia’s largest, and rank among the first 10 in the world. Mongolian industrial produc- tion as a whole will increase by 60-65% by 1980 as compared with 1975, and mining will be an impor- tant element. Industry, by the end of the 1976-80 five-year plan will account for 46% of aggregate so- cial product, and for more than 35% of the national income. This represents a step toward achievement of the 6th Five-Year Plan goal of turing Mongolia into an industnial-agrarian country. Giant Training Centre Yumjaagiyn Tsedenbal, gen- eral secretary of the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party, and president of the presidium of the Great People’s Khural (parli- ament) singled out the Erdenet project in his report to the 17th: Party Congress. “In 1978 the first section of the joint Mongolian-Soviet Erdenet ore-enrichment combine will be launched. It is common knowl- tached equal importance to the event. Saying she had been greatly ie peared, Mrs. Gandhi declared: ‘‘I moved by the crowds which greeted her wherever she ap- Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi made a notable state visit. edge that this combine is a major . Ore-mining combine and ranks among the 10 largest enterprises of this kind in the world.”’ Er- denet means not only construct- ing an industrial complex, but a town. Tsedenbal reported: **... our workers are working shoulder to shoulder with their Soviet friends, borrow their rich experience, raise their own skills and are consolidating still more the traditional brotherly friend- ship of the Soviet and Mongolian peoples. It may be said without fear of exaggeration that Erdenet is not only a great construction site but a gigantic centre for training highly-skilled workers and engineering and_ technical personnel.” The project, which will be fully operative by 1980, will increase Mongolia’s export potential tre- mendously whatever the anguish it may cause CIA circles which effectively handed back Chilean copper to the multi-nationals after the murder of President Allende. Proletarian Internationalism The cooperation between Mongolia and other countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance is in evidence every- where in the MPR. The Wilhelm Pieck Carpet Factory, for exam- ple, visited by fraternal delegates to the 17th Congress, and which exports 90% of its production, was fully equipped with machin- ery from the German Democratic Republic. In the past 17 years, 279 key projects built or developed in Mongolia have had Soviet assis- tance. These include 102 indust- rial enterprises (among them five heat-and-power stations, coal mines, house building factories, and mixed fodder plants). In a visit to the Erdenet project, F. D. Kulakov, a member of the Central Committee of the Soviet PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JULY 23, 1976—Page 4 have been able to see for myself what remarkable progress the GDR has achieved in industry, agriculture and for the well-being of the people.”’ At a banquet to honor her host, Erich Honecker, general secret- ary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Mrs. Gandhi invited Honecker to make a state visit to India. Accepting the invitation, Honecker declared: ‘‘As a result of your visit and the exchange of opinions between us, weare able to say that there is complete understanding between our two countries in the struggle for a new world, for peace, security and so- cial progress. It is encouraging for our people to know that it has at its side a friend like India in the struggle for these goals.”’ In a joint communique ending the visit, both sides ‘‘expressed their determination to deepen and extend their cooperation in the political, economic, technical and cultural fields, as well as in other areas”. They greeted the prog- ress made in the lessening of ten- sions in the world, but added: “They do not fail to see, that the process of lessening of tensions is still weighted down with -dif- ficulties.. They consider it to be necessary to consolidate and make permanent the relaxation of tensions in other regions in which conflicts and tensions exist.”’ The 30th session of the CMEA brought to Berlin Alexei Kosygin, prime minister of the USSR, and leading representatives of ~the other CMEA countries. The GDR delegation is headed by Prime Minister Horst Sindermann. Pre sent as observers for the first time are delegations from Angola an Laos. While all intergovernmentél meetings of the western capitalist countries are generally a show place for rivalries, an economie tug of war and disputes, thé CMEA session here is being held in an atmosphere of cordial c0 operation. The various delega tions are not plagued by the rival ries of the capitalist world but alt proceeding constructively and i! a planned manner with the furthel integration of the economies © the socialist countries to thei! mutual advantage. This marked superiority of dynamic socialist industria growth over the capitalist stagn@ tion and crisis has made a deep ‘impression outside the CMEA area. As a result, non-socialist countries like Finland, Mexic? and Iraq have singed agreements with CMEA to cooperate with It With plans already approved for the investment of some $1 billion for joint CMEA projects: no one doubts that the final dect sions of the current CMEA meee ing will reflect the furthef dynamic growth of its socialist member states during the nex! five years. At the new town of Erdenet, Mongolian and Soviet specialists are bringing into production a copper and molibdenum mining-processing complex ranking among the world’s 10 largest. Communist Party, and leader of the Soviet delegation to the 17th Congress, said that ‘‘Erdenet is a special kind of construction pro- ject. Such advanced and modern methods,”’ he said, ‘‘have not yet been used to build towns in Mon- golia’s steppes.” Kulakov remarked: ‘‘When one sees Mongolian and Soviet workers shoulder to shoulder on the same scaffolding, it makes you think here is brotherhood in practice, here is proletarian inter- nationalism in action!”’ Revolutionary Youth Mongolian speakers, Z.- Ban- zragch, Party leader in Erdenet, and D. Molomzhamts, Party Politbureau member, saw the de- velopment of Erdenet at the copper mountain as evidence of the success of joint Mongolian-Soviet efforts. The Revolutionary Youth League, whose members play an important part at Erdenet, also have responsibility for agricul- tural advances. The “regular training of young people for sub- sequent replacement of the older generation of people working in agriculture ... people with the necessary level of modern knowl- edge...’ Tsedenbal noted, **...merits close attention on the part of the Party, state, trade union, Young Revolutionary League and other organizations.” He said that the Party’s call for young people to take up jobs in agriculture was greeted with en- thusiasm. ‘‘Today thousands of young men and women, who ar- rived in rural areas during the past five-year period .. . after finishing secondary and vocational schools and training centres, are working selflessly at agricultural C0 ‘operatives and state-owne farms.”” Later, he said: ‘‘Taking int? account the great number of let ters from youths, pupils and sel vicemen of RYL to the Cent ral Committee of the MPRP, that the virgin land development should be entrusted to the RYL, believe that we shall whole heartedly support this patrioti¢ initiative...” Putting these new lands: int? production will mean increases 18 grain, potatoes, vegetables, am the strengthening the fodder bas¢ on which a large increase in lives” tock will be possible. Mongolia. has an extensive meat-exporting trade.