25th CONGRESS,

COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION

Soviet-Canadian relations
keep growing stronger ...

By RIMMA KOPELEVA

MOSCOW — In his speech at
the 25th Congress of the Com-
_munist Party of the Soviet Union,
which ended in Moscow, Mar. 5,
Leonid Brezhnev, general secret-
ary of the CPSU Central Commit-
tee, analyzing the international
situation, observed that, ‘‘our re-
lations with Canada are ever
richer in content; we believe that
their prospects are good.”’

Indeed, a survey of the scien-
tific and technical ties between
the two countries alone most
clearly corroborates the truth of
these words. For instance, the
past year in this field was marked
by cooperation in a qualitatively
new stage, with the shaping up of
achangeover from an exchange of
scientific and technical informa-
tion to trade and economic trans-
actions.

A significant role in this respect
was played by the 4th session of
the Mixed Soviet-Canadian
Commission for Cooperation,
which took place in Canada in

May 1975. It examined proposals ~

concerning projects of scientific,
technical and economic coopera-
tion between Canada and the
USSR.

In particular, in conformity
with the contract between the
Soviet foreign trade association,
Mashinoexport, and the Cana-
dian Drilling Research Associa-
tion, tests of Soviet turbodrills
began in Canada last November.

The oil industry specialists of
both countries are examining a
project of drilling an oil well in the
permafrost zone in the USSR
with the application of Soviet and
Canadian equipment and
technologies. A contract has pre-
sently been signed with the
Global Trading Company on the
delivery to the USSR of certain
types of equipment and materials
for this kind of oil well drilling.

Highly interesting work is be-

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Soviet-Canadian scientific and technical Scociarsiion has been de-
veloping successfully over the past five years, the 25th CPSU Congress
was informed. Our photo shows the Soviet Chairman of the Council of
Ministers A. N. Kosygin talking to Canadian hockey players during Jeg

visit here in sad

Ay pondncted by gas as industry. ex-
perts, who at their meeting in
Moscow in April 1975, discussed
projects on the testing of Cana-
dian technology and_ unitized
equipment at the large Urengoi
and Medvezhye gas deposits in
the Soviet arctic region.

The next stage, based on scien-
tific and technical cooperation,
should be economic cooperation,

One of the comerstones of
Soviet policy has been its peace
program elaborated at the 24th
Communist Party Congress in
1971. At the 25th Congress just
concluded, peace was again a

central concern, and the Soviet

program to contribute to its at-
tainment was extended and re-
newed.

“One of the principal directions
of the Soviet Union’s foreign pol-
icy,’ said Leonid Brezhnev in his
report to the congress, ‘‘was and
remains the struggle for the dis-
continuation of the arms race and
for disarmament. The relaxation
of political tension should be
complemented with an easing of
military tension,”’ he said.

Brezhnev stressed that the

- further struggle for peace, free-

dom and independence of nations

‘demands that priority should be
“given to a, number of crucial is-

sues. He listed these 10 points:
1. By consistently fostering
the unity of the fraternal socialist
States and promoting extensive
cooperation among them in build-
ing a new society, they should

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embodied in a special agreement
or contract on the delivery of
Canadian equipment to the

USSR. All aspects of joint work |

will be stipulated in this agree-
ment or contract.

Since both the Soviet Union
and Canada have certain
achievements and difficulties in
dealing with problems of de-
velopment of gas resources in

step up their cooperative efforts
in the cause of peace.

2. The arms race, which is be-
coming increasingly dangerous
for peace should be discontinued,
and progress should be made in
reducing the stockpiles of
weapons and achieving disarma-
ment.

3. The peace-loving states
should concentrate their efforts
on removing the existing seats of
war particularly on the achieve-
ment of a just and lasting settle-
ment in the Middle East.

4. Everything possible should
be done to promote detente and
translate it into practical forms of
mutually beneficial cooperation
between states.

5. Vigorous efforts should be
exerted to put into practice all the
provisions of the Final Act of the ©
European Conference, and to
promote peaceful cooperation in
Europe.

6. In line with the principles of
peaceful co-existence, consistent
efforts should be continued to
promote long-term mutually ad-

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northern regions, the pooled ef-
forts of experts of both countries
will help to accomplish these
tasks.

Lately, temporary teams of ex-

perts have been set up to define -

the possibility of promoting coop-
eration in the coal industry, geol-
ogy, ferrous and non-ferrous
metallurgy.

Summing up the results of de-
velopment of Canadian-Soviet
scientific and technical coopera-
tion over the past five years, it can
be noted with satisfaction that it
has been developing successfully
all the time and has created pre-
conditions for the expansion of
trade and economic relations be-

* tween the two countries. Further

progress in the promotion of sci-
entific, technical, trade and
economic cooperation between
Canada and the Soviet Union will.
largely depend on the active par-
ticipation of Soviet organizations
and Canadian companies in im-
plementing large-scale projects in
the USSR and Canada. In the final
analysis, everyone stands to gain

from such cooperation, because, :

as Leonid Brezhnev pointed out
at the 25th Congress of the CPSU,
economic, scientific and technical
ties consolidate and expand the
material basis of the policy of
peaceful co-existence.

(Rimma Kopeleva is an expert
with the State Committee of the
USSR Council of Ministers for Sci-
ence and Technology.) z

vantageous cooperation with the
capitalist states in all fields.

7. There is a need to pave the
way for ensuring security in Asia
through collective efforts of the
states of the continent.

8. Efforts should be made to
conclude a universal treaty on the
non use of force in international
relations.

9. It should be regarded as one
of the most important interna-
tional tasks to eliminate all the
vestages of the system of colonial
oppression, the infringement
upon the rights and independence
of nations, and all the seats of col-
onialism and racism. .

10. Discrimination and any ar-
tificial obstacles in international
trade should be removed and all
the manifestations of inequality,

diktat and exploitation i in interna-

tional economic relations should
be abolished.

““We see these proposals as a
logical and necessary continua-
tion of the peace program adopted
at the 24th Soviet Communist
Party Congress,’’ Brezhnev em-
phasized.

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Centre for Spanish Speakifl "

TORONTO — A meeting 00
about 300 people celebrated IMs
ternational Women’s Day of
day early here, March 7, as
panel representing the Cofl
munist Party, the New Democt#?
tic Party, the Canadian Peale
Congress, The Organized Work?
ing Women of the Toronto Areal
(OWWTA) and the Centre fw
Spanish Speaking Peoples spokilit
on the many areas of concern!
women in Canada. ;
Presentations by the dance a
choral ensemble of the Federt a
tion of Russian Canadians, and4, :
trio of musicians playing ia Ci

On the panel were: Lois B BE
dard, Ontario Secondary Scho),
Teachers Federation delegate thy
OWWTA; Gloria Monteff

People; Vi Thompson, ND
Nancy McDonald, Commu IS
Party of Canada and Jeannetli,:
Morgan of the Canadian Pee
Congress. In addition, Dr. Ched!
Jagan, general secretary of ti
People’s Progressive Party !
Guyana, presently on a Canadi iN :
speaking tour, was a surpris
guest speaker. q
Three Objectives -

- Chairing the meeting, whidhs

was endorsed by the Metro Teg

~ronto Labor Council and white

heard greetings from Toronl i
Mayor David Crombie wé&;
Rosemary McLellan of the Cob.
gress of Canadian Women, ones ;
‘the organizing groups. Dn
Noting that International W%
men’s Year had unveiled a néen
Stage in the struggle for woment 9
rights on a world scale, McLell# ¢,
declared that this struggle was ll, §
separable from the fight for soci Pw
and economic progress and 4
peace and disarmament. She C#byj
led for the unity of all wome’
organizations to rally behind
three objectives of Internatio!
Women’s Year, equality,
velopment and peace.
Greetings from the OWW
were brought by Lois Bedard wit
said the aim of the organiza’ jor }
was not to isolate men within Sai
labor movement, but to mobili#™