p Dear Comrades,

p The delegation of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany conveys to all the Parties friendly greetings from our Party and all the working people of the German Democratic Republic. We express our special gratitude to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party for the extensive work they did in preparing this Meeting.

p Delegates of Communist and Workers’ Parties from 75 countries, from all continents, have come together here, in the capital of the first socialist state in the world—the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—for their Meeting. This shows that the militant slogan "Workers of all countries, unite!" from the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels has been taken up by the working people in the remotest parts of the world.

p The International Meeting accords with the objective necessity of rallying together the ranks of Communists, of all revolutionary forces. It is taking place in an atmosphere of sharper international class struggle against imperialism. That is why strengthening the community of socialist states and uniting all the democratic, anti-imperialist forces are a primary task. We welcome the call for a wider offensive against imperialism, against the forces of reaction and war, sounded in the Main Document of the International Meeting.

p Aware of their responsibility. Communists collectively elaborate and adopt joint documents, and collectively discuss common tasks of the struggle against imperialism; thereby they discharge their duty—they give the peoples answers to urgent questions and provide them with a correct orientation.

p The Socialist Unity Party of Germany voices its profound satisfaction over the convocation of the present Meeting, which was prepared collectively, in a democratic way.

p The SUPG approves of the proposed draft Main Document, which fully conforms to the propositions of the Consultative Conference. It happily combines a concrete formulation of the tasks of the common struggle against imperialism with an analysis of the main processes of international development. The assessments and conclusions pertaining to the joint struggle which are given in the Main Document of the Meeting are in line with the experience 217 and opinion of our Party. They will promote the rallying together of the Communist and Workers’ Parties, of all anti-imperialist forces, first of all in the newly free national states and semi-colonial countries, and will raise the common struggle against imperialism to a higher level.

The leader of the CPSU delegation, Comrade L. I. Brezhnev, made in his speech a scientific analysis of the international class struggle and the struggle of the peoples against imperialism and set out the basic problems of the strategy and tactics of Communist and Workers’ Parties in the contemporary period.