p Dear Comrades,

p First allow us to extend warm greetings to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and all Soviet citizens and to thank the CC CPSU for its hospitality and the extensive work which it has done to provide the best possible conditions for organising and holding our Meeting.

p We should like to take this opportunity, to express once more our gratitude to the comrades of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party, who have done valuable work throughout the initial stage of the preparations for the Meeting.

We are happy to participate in such a representative and important gathering at which so many Communist and Workers’ Parties are present, and we convey to them fraternal greetings from Italian Communists.