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.

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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

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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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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 -

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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#™