aevermeeD) MILY REPORT People's Republic of China

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INTERNATIONAL *"ATRS GENERAL

Guyana Weekly: New International Economic Order Needed Multinational Agricultural Mechanization Show in October ([ANSA]

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SOVIET UNION

USSR Uses Cuban Troops as 'Foreign Legion' in Africa Draft Treaty Reveals Soviet Union's 'Hegemonic Ambitions’ Soviet Third World 'Social Imperialist Expansion' Exposed Neth rlands Paper Reports Ouste? of Three Soviet Spies

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NORTH ASTA

Japanese Friendship Delegation Feted in Peking Fukuda Reported Blaming U.S. for Weakening Dollar Value Briefs: Envoy in Japan

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SOUTHEAST ASIA & rACIFIC

Allied Naval Exercise Held in Pacific, Indian Oceans Fwangtung Holds Banquet for Thai Prime Minister Rice Contract Signed With Malaysia on 31 March Briefs: Painting Exhibi ion in Piji

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SOUTH ASIA

Nepalese Assembly Delegation Visits Tachai Nepal's Ambassador Departs for Home at End of Tour Maldives Celebrates 13th Anniversary of Independence

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EUROPE

Trade Pact Signed With EEC Marks 'Support' for Exu.vpe Hope for 'Expansion' [KYODO]

FRG Minister, Chancellor Receive Foreign Trade Minister [DPA]

Huang Hua Gives Banquet for Sweaish Foreign Minister Swedish Minister's Interview [Stockholm]

Spanish Labor Party Recolution Criticizes U.S., USSR

Spanish vournal Praises Example of Chou En-lai

Keng Piao Meets With Netherlands M-L Party Official

French Businessmen Depart Peking for Shanghai, Hangchow

PEOPLE'S DATLY Officials Fete Prench Newspaper Delegation

Teng Ying-chao Meets With Yugoslav Journalists

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Tienanmen Square Incident Explained [TANJUG) CCP Workers Delegation Welcomed in Romanian Counties Hungarian Envoy Hosts Liberation Day Party in Peking

MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA

Israelis Demand Concessions From Prime Minister Begin West Bank Arab Students Protest Israeli Occupation As-Sadat Cited on Occupied Lands, Palestinian Rights Palestinian, Lebanese Forces ‘ttack Israeli 'Aggressors' Arabs Mark 'Day of Land' on 30 March Syrian Conference Statement Supports Paleetinian Cause Three Arab Countries Call for Arab Unity PDRY Prime Minister Postpones Visit to Chiua

Envoy Sees Hospitaiized Premier President Carter Ends Visit to Nigeria Mauritius Ambassador Leaves for Home at End of Tour Briefs: Wushu Group to Africa; Study Group in Zanzibar

WESTERN HEMISPI™RE

Fang I Meets “ith Mexican Scientific Delegation Peru-Argentina Statement Condemns 'Colonialism'

NATIONAL AFFAIRS ,

Posters Denouncing 'Political Ciowns' Appear in Peking [AFP] Public Health Vice Minister Addresses Science Conference Chou's Contributions to Revolutionary United Pront Recounted PEOPLE'S DAILY Urges Stricter Enforcement of Discipline (24 Mar] First Issue ot’ CHING-CHI YEN-CHIU Condemns Gang's Economics [No 1] LIBERATION ARMY DAILY Says Army Must Be 'Big School' [31 Mar] NCNA Reports on First-Quarter Production Output

Textile Industry Tops Quotas

Oil, Gas Output Increases

Electricity Output Up

Railway Workers Set Record

Light Industries Improve Social Sciences Academy Holds Forum on Nationalities Affairs

[KWANGMING DAILY 26 Mar] Foochow Cutting Tools Exhibit Features Ni Chih-fu Innovation Scientists Produce Atlas on Magnitudes of Drought, Flood Instrument for Diagnosis of Heart Diseases Developed Literary Journal Examines Research on Foreign Literature (WEN-HSUEH PING-LUN No 1 25 Feb]

PEOPLE'S DAILY Calls for 'Taking Grain as Key Link' (26 Mar] Briefs: Book on Soil Science

CENTRAL-SOUTH REGION

Third Honan Militia Congress Concludes Activities Chang Chung- ju Report Closing Ceremony 30 March Congress Proposal

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Hupeh Taching Conference Concludes Weeklong Session H 9 1/013 28-29 Maroh Session H 9 1/013 Closing Ceremony 31 March H 10 1/014 Han Ning-fu Report Hil 1/61

Hainan Meeting Discusses Triple-Cropping H17 67

SOUTHWEST REUION

Kweichow Provincial Party Congress Ends J 1 16 KWEICHOW DAILY Hails Congress J 2 ee

Kweichow CCP Committee Holds Plenum ‘fo Elect Leaders J 3 460

Szechwan Conference Discusses Industry J 4 «ew

NORTHEAST REGION

Heilungkiang CPPCC Standing Committee Meets L 1 We

Kirin Efforts To Study NPC Guidelines Related L 2 4/4

Kirin's Wang En-mao Addressos Women's Congress L 3 Wa

NORTHWEST REGION Wang Feng Speaks at Sinkiang Learn-From-Taching, Tachai Meeting M 1 1/4

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GENERAL GUYANA WEEKLY: NEW INTERNATLONAL FCONOMIC ORDER NERDED OWO351315Y Peking NCNA in English 1215 GMT 3 Apr 78 OW

[Text] Georgetuin, 2 Apr (HSINHUA)--The new international e onomic order is seen by the developing countries as necessary for their national survival and development, said the Guyana's weekly NEW NATIOV in an article today. It stressed that developing countries must not depend on "handouts" and aid to improve the standard of living of their people.

The ertic e pointed out that the under-developed and developing countries together provide e greater percentage of world's raw materials. But the control of world

prices o. raw materials and also prices of consumer and capital goods by developed countyics "makes possible rabid exploitation of developing countvies by multinationals bent on making super profits". The developing countries “have correctly posited that the new order must reflect the fundamental changes in economic relations and facilitiate the true deveiopment of the under-developed and developing countries".

It stated that national liberation is a necessary prerequisite for new international economic order. "The struggles of the peoples of southern Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, and South Africa are, without doubt, the struggles not only of peoples of those countries for independence and self-determination, but struggles of the entire developing world for whom the question of new economic order is a matter of survival", the article concluded.

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MULTINATIONAL AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION SLOW IN OCTOBER AU310910Y Rome ANSA in English 0850 GMT 31 Mar 78 AU

(Text ] Peking, 31 Mar (ANSA)--An important exhibit devoted to agricultural mechanization will open in Peking on October 20. Twelve nations will be represented: Eight Western European nations (including Italy), Romania, Canada, Australia and Japan.

The mechanization of agriculture is one of the chief goals of China's ten-year plan which aims at a cereal production of 400 million tons by 1985. China also hopes to have mechanized 85 percent of its agricultural activities by that time. At the century's end, China hopes to have caught up to or surpassed the per-acre yield of the most agriculturaliy advanced nations.

The Japanese presence at the show will be massive. Some 70 firms will be represented many of them among the most important in the island nation. Officials from the Tokyo Foreign Trade Board, who are in Peking for talks connected to the exhibit, said that Italy would be one of their stiffest competitors. Italy is particularly strong in the field of irrigation machinery and in the planting of rice.

SOVIET UNION USSR USES CUBAN TROOPS AS ‘FOREIGN LEGION' IN AFRICA OW0O21836Y Peking NCNA in English 1717 GMT 2 Apr 78 OW

(NCNA correspondent's commentary: "What Does Presence of Soviet Union's 'Foreign Legion' in Africa Mean?" ]

(Text ] Peking, 2 Apr (HSINHUA)--Nineteen days have elapsed since Somalia completed its troop withdrawal from Ogadenon March 14. Yet there is still no sign that the Cuban

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troops, whom the world public call the "foreign legion" of the Soviet Union. would withdraw from the Horn of Africa. Instead, word comes that Cuba is sending veinforce- ments to the Horn of Africa and southeastern Africa. People now raise the question: Sance the original pretext for the military intervention no longer exists, why is it that the mercenary troops in the pay of the Soviet Union should hang on “irst in Angola and then in the Horn of Africa? And to what part of the African Continent will the Kremlin direct this seourge next?

The lesson one has learnt from this is: Once the mercenary troops of the Soviet Union stepped on the soil of an African region on country, they would not quit easily. This is because their military actions in Africa are not merely acts of military inter- vention against one region or one country; they are closely related to the ambitions of social-imperialism for world domination and to its increasingly intense rivalry with the other superpower. ‘This "foreign legion" formed by Cuban troops is but a

tool of the Kremlin for world hegemony.

Nikita Khrushchev introduced missiles into Cuba in 1962. This action showed that as early as the 1960's when the Soviet Union was beginning to degenerate into social- imperialism and to contend for supremacy with U.S. imperialism, the masters of the Kremlin already singled out Cuba as their base for confrontation and rivalry with

the United States. In the past 10 years or more when the Soviet Union has completely degenerated into social-imperialism, it has not only turned Cuba into a military springboard in the Caribbean but also placed the Cuban Armed Forces under its control. The 20-odd Cuba-based Soviet TU-95B long-range reconnaissance bombers are making regular flights near the U.S. proper. Cienfuegos of Cuba has been turned into a base for the Soviet special task fleet to make constant presence in the Caribbean. A strategic highway best suited for military aircraft in wartime is being built in Cuba. The Soviet Union has poured more than 3,000 million U.S. dollars' worth of military hardware into Cuba to equip and train Cuban Armed Forces into the second strongest combat units in the Western Hemisphere after the U.S. Armed Forces.

The Cuban troops have made their presence as the Soviet Union's "foreign legion" in some regions of the world at a time when she rivalry between the two superpowers for hegemony in Europe and its flanks has become ever more acute. They were transported from the far-off Caribbean to Angola. Equipped with Soviet arms and led by Soviet generals, the Cuban forces in Angola started their expeditions in the African Continent. Then came the armed invasion of Zaire engineered by the Soviet Union and Cuba. Then follows their armed intervention in the Horn of Africa.

In an article carried in the French paper LE MONDE on February 10 discussing the strategic significance of the presence of the Soviet "foreign legion" in Africa, defense expert Jacques Isnard says: "Under the umbrella of nuclear deterrent which is aimed at 'freezing' the sitvation in certain regions of the world, notably in Europe, the Soviet Union has perfected a military capacity of long-distance int-rvention which relies on the existence of a new 'foreign legion' in its service: Cubai. units and technicians of central Europe." According to the intent of the Kremlin, a Cuban expeditionary corps of professional soldiers "eun be put in the first line of the scene where the Soviets would not like very much to occup} themselves".

It is very obvious that by supplying Cubans with money and weapons for them to fight in Africa, the Soviet Union aims to establish its own spheres of influence in Africa, encircle Burope from the flanks, and pose a threat to the lifeline, namely the sea route for petroleum transport, of the Western countries.

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The using of Cuban troops by the Soviet Union to carry out armed intervention in Africa also indicated that social-imperialism has developed into a stage when it would not scruple to launch a limited conventional war to realize its strategic ambition for world supremacy.

After the Soviet mezcenaries staged an armed intervention in Angola, the U.S. weekly CLARION pointed out that Cuba had become a Troy horse installed by the Soviet Union in the Third World. Cuba's status as a weak nation being subjected to prolonged colonial oppression, its leader's "revolutionary" cloak and even the complexion of its black troops which makes it difficult to differentiate them from the Africans, all these are factors in the Kremlin choice of Cuba as its cat's-paw to cover up its armed expansion in Africa.

Western information agencies estimated that Cuban troops in Africa have now exceeded 40,000, or nearly one-third of the strength of the Cuban regular force. To equip

this "foreign legion", the Soviet Union has sent armaments worth over 1,000 million U.S. dollars to Africa. For sending these Cubans to Africa the Soviet Union organized a massive long-range air and marine transport unprecedented since World War Two. Judging by the fact that the Kremlin has set such a big chip in this gambling and that Soviet mercenaries have been fighting in Africa for the past 3 years, it is clear

that the Soviet Union, after long deliberation, has taken an ambitious strategic action in Africa, an action which it will never give up lightly.

In the Caribbean crisis in October, 1962 after the United States spotted the missiles which Khrushchev had furtively sent to Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in a grim trial of force with the Soviet Union, ordered a naval blockade of Cuba. Reeling back from his acts of adventurism in the subsequent confrontation, Khrushchev turned to capitulationism and pulled the Soviet missiles and bombers out of Cuba and even agreed to the humiliating demand for inspection by U.S. ships on the way home.

Now, 16 years later, the Soviet Union and Cuba were emboldened to commit flagrant military intervention in Africa. As the British MP Winston S. Churchill put it, "This new crisis finds the West in acute disarray, lacking the will to challenge the brazen Soviet aggression at any point. The United States sits paralysed as reinforcements leave Cuba by sea and by air, beneath their very nose."

Nor has the United States reacted in any way to the fact that Soviet aircraft and warships and even nuclear-powered submarines stay at Cuban bases and that Soviet

pilots took the place of the Cuban ones sent to Africa and fly patrol missions just off the U.S. limits.

The change that took place in the last 16 years points to the decline of an imperialist power of te old order and the meteoric rise of a social-imperialist upstart. Today, the Soviet; Union has become the most dangerous source of another world war.

However, historical development is inexorable. The United States, for many years the world gendarme, had once engineered the invasion of Cuba by mercenaries it formed of Cuban exiles, but the whole venture ended in abject fiasco, and it has been on the decline. Who would care to assert that Soviet social-imperialism, now throwing its weight around all over the world, will not drift into the same rut of U.S. imperialism.

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DRAFT TREATY REVEALS SOVIET UNION'S 'HEGEMONIC AMBITIONS! 0W031726Y Peking NCNA in English 1709 GMT 3 Apr 78 ow

[Text] ‘Tokyo, 3 Apr (HSINHUA)--The draft of the "Soviet-Japan good neighbourhood and cooperation treaty" is "a vevelation of the hegemonic ambitions of the Brezhnev clique

to put Japan under the sway of the Soviet Union", says organ of the Workers Party of Japan RONO SENBO in a recent article. The article says that the draft made public uni- laterally by the Soviet Union not long ago is "a treaty of military alliance which is aimed at crippling the Japan-U.S. security system, replacing U.S. imperialism with Soviet social-imperialism and putting Japan under Soviet military control."

"In their attempt to impose a de facto military alliance treaty on Japan, Soviet social- imperialists are not merely exerting diplomatic pressure. We must realize that they are also strengthening their military build-up in the Far East and speeding up war prepara-

tions so as to increase their military pressure on Japan", the article adds.

After enumerating Soviet naval and air manoeuvres around Japan since the beginning of this year, it points out that the vast Soviet military build-up in the Far East is "a step in its war preparations and in its rivalry for world domination with U.S. imperialism".

The article concludes, "We condemn and firmly oppose the scramble for hegemony by the two superpowers, the Soviet Union and United States, in Asia as well as in the world, their encroachment on other countries' sovereignty and independence, and their perverted acts to increase the danger of a new world war by dragging other countries onto their chariot of aggression. In particular, we denounce Soviet social-imperialism for its ruthless oppression and menace against and interference in Japan. And we will put up

a fight against it".

The March issue of AFRO-ASIAN SOLIDARITY, organ of the Japan Committee for Afro-Asian People's Solidarity, reported that the standing directors of the committee had met to discuss the dangers implied in the Soviet draft and the ulterior motives in dishing up

the draft.

Many participants repeatedly pointed out ‘n their speeches that the draft offered in the name of good "neighbourhood and cooperation" is actually a treaty of military alli- ance. It is a link in Soviet war preparations and in pushing Soviet hegemonic policy in the whole world, and it is a major step in the Soviet attempt to put Japan under its

control, they said.

SOVIET THIRD WORLD 'SOCIAL IMPERIALIST EXPANSION! EXPOSED 0WO31724Y Peking NCNA in English 1641 GMT 3 Apr 78 OW

[Text] Peking, 3 Apr (HSINHUA)--The Malaysian paper KUANG HUA YIT PAO in an editorial on April 1 exposes Soviet social-imperialist expansion in the Third World, according to a Kuala Lumpur report. It points out that a more and more resolute struggle is being waged by the Third World countries against the Soviet Union recently. This struggle forcefully shows the irresistible fighting current of the Third World countries anu

peoples.

The editorial says: "The contradictions between the Third World on the one hand and the Soviet Union and the United States on the other are irreconcilable. The two cuper- powers have not only made Europe the focus of their contention, but also carried out expansion in the Third World with broad areas, rich resources and a vast population.

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It points out: "The Soviet doings in the Third World stand diametrically opposed to

the latter's interests. When the Third World countries want to defend their national

independence and state sovereignty, the Soviet Union is interfering in their internal

affairs and carrying out subversive activities against them. When a number of Third

World councries need weapons to fight against imperialism and colonialism and to

strengthen their defense ability, the Soviet Union seizes the opportunity to engage in

endless munition ccals and let its military forces infiltrate into these countries and

lord it over them. In a word, the Soviet Union is trying to poke into every nook and

corner of the Third World." e ("

It adds that the Soviet Union is a self-styled "natural @liy" of the Third World and : keeps crying about its "selfless aid". However, its hyp “erisy cannot cover its true coleurs. The so-called "selfless aid" is aimed to subjeq, others to its orders. The so-called "natural alliance" is aimed at putting the Th@ orld countries one by one into its spheres of influence through agreements full 4% igh-sounding terms.

The editorial says: "Therefore, the Third World countrieg in recent years have engaged

more and more resolutely in the struggle against the Shy Lt Union, breaking its evil talons of subversion and infiltration, abdrogating treaties with the Soviet Union,

expelling Soviet military personnel and demanding the withdrawal of Soviet military bases

from their territories. These facts positively demonst. ate that the torrent of struggle

against hegemonism waged by the Third World countries and peoples cannot be stemmed."

NETHERLANDS PAPER REPORTS OUSTER OF THREE SOVIET SPIES

OW311419Y Peking NCNA in English 1245 GMT 31 Mar 78 OW

[Text] Brussels, 30 Mar (HSINHUA)--The Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands has ousted three Soviet spies from the country, DE TELEGRAAF reported today. The three spies are S.V. Chervavev, member of the Soviet commercial mission in Amsterdam, I.A. Lepukhev, director of the bureau of the Soviet "Intourist" in Holland, and A.S. Poleshchuk, a Soviet citizen residing in the country. The three Soviets collected confidential informa- tion on computers and electronic research which is very important to the system of modern

weapons.

It was not the first time for Soviet officials in Holland to be engaged in espionage activities. Another member of the Soviet commercial mission in Amsterdam, Burmistrov, and a staff member of the Holland-Soviet joint enterprise in Hilversum, Khlystov, were expelled in April 1976 by the Dutch Government for their spying activities.

Personage concerned in the Netherlands pointed out the case showed once again that the Russians are engaged in espionage activities under the cover of their institutions

working abroad.

NORTH ASIA JAPANESE FRIENDSHIP DELEGATION FETED IN PEKING 0W031833Y Peking NCNA in English 1741 GMT 3 Apr 78 OW

[Text] Peking, 3 Apr (HSINHUA)--The Peking branch of the China Internat ional Travel Service gave a banquet here this evening in honour of a friendship delegation from various circles of the Tokai region, Japan. They dined on Peking roast duck.

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: Led by Mr Chuji Kuno, an old friend of the Chinese people, the delegation is made up of more than 120 members. Many of them helped with the successful Chinese exhibition in Nagoya last year.

During the enjoyable chat between Chinese and Japanese friends this evening, they it expressed their determination to make further efforts to promote friendship between l the two peoples, This afternoon, Vice-Chairman of the Peking Municipal Revolutionary | Committee Wang Hsiao-i met with delegation leader Chuji Kuno, depuvy leader Tatsu Hayashi, Mrs Hayashi and other Japanese friends, The conversation was cordial and friendly. The Japanese friends visited Shanghai, Nanking and Yangchow before arriving here on i April ).

FUKUDA REPORTED BLAMING U.S. FOR WEAKENING DOLLAR VALUE OW0O31845Y Peking NCNA in English 1735 GMT 3 Apr 78 OW

{(Excerpts] Tokyo, 3 Apr (HSINHUA)--The soaring yen broke the 220 mark to reach a new high of 218.2 to the U.S, dollar on the foreign exchange market here today.

According to Japanese press reports, answering a question on the yen revaluation by a ! Dietman of the Komei Party at a meeting of the Budget Committee of the House of Councillors, Prime Minister Fuki ia said, "The nature of the question is the big U.S. trade deficit and

the worsening infl: ’ on in that country."

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ENVOY IN JAPAN--Tokyo, 31 Mar--A special performance was given by the Matsuyama Ballet Troupe and the Matsuyama Ballet School here this evening to an audience of more than 4,000 to celebrate the 30th founding anniversary of the troupe and the 42d anniversary

) of Mikiko Matsuyama's career as a dancer. Chinese Ambassador to Japan Fu Hao and diplomatic envoys of some other countries were present. [Peking NCNA in English 1222 GMT

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SOUTHEAST ASIA & PACIFIC

ALLIED NAVAL EXERCISE HELD IN PACIFIC, INDIAN OCEANS

OW31550¥Y Peking NCNA in English 1504 GMT 3 Apr 78 OW

[Text] Canberra, 3 Mar (HSINHUA)--Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States began today an allied naval exercise in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, a spokesman for the Australian Department of Defence said here today. A press release issued by the department on March 28 said that the multi-nation exercise, nick- named "Roll Call", was designed to "test plans and procedures for the control and protec- tion of merchant shipping in the Pacific and Indian oceans in the event of hostilities",

The department said that almost 150 Royal Australian Naval Reserve personnel were mobilised to take part in the exercise and they were supported by staffs of Royal Australian Nav. and Royal Australian Air Force officers. Australia lad staged three joint military exercises with some or all of the above-mentioned cow tries since last November, The exercise is due to end on April 14. Meanwhile, a comtined air force

and army exercise has begun today by Royal Australian Air Force and ioyal Australian Army at Woomera. The Australian Department of Defence said in a press release last month : that the exercise called "Shifting Sands Two", is "essentially an exercise in helicopter tactics and procedures", It involved various kinds of fighters, transport and support aircraft aud helicopters and more than 300 troops from the infantry, artillery and the air transport support wegiment. It will last till April ll.

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KWANGTUNG HOLDS BANQUET FO? THAI PRIME MINISTER QWO31734Y Peking N’NA in English 1715 GMT 3 Apr 78 OW

[Text] Canton, 3 Apr (HSINHUA)--Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand Kriangsak Chamanan with his wife and other distinguished Thai guests was honoured at a banquet by the Kwangtung Provincial Revolutionary Committee here this evening, Reviewing his friendly visit to China, the Thai prime minister in his toast said: The aim of our current visit

to China is to develop friendly relations and close cooperation between the two countries, We are very glad to have had a wide exchange of views with Chinese leaders on questions in the interests of both sides, enhanced our mutual understanding and reached identical

vies with regard to the peace, stability and other major issues of our region. Both sides - .3e@ to cooperate in promoting trade and science and technology, and have got initial results in all these fields, I am very glad to note that Chinese leaders have expressed to me their support for the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and for its proposal to establish a peaceful, free and neutralized region in Southeast Asia, We.were deeply impressed by the moving and very friendly hospitality accorded us during ow’ visit. We also saw tle Chinese people concerting their efforts to surmount difficulties, determined to accomplish the long-term plan to make China a prosperous, powerful, modern country within the next 22 years under the leadership of their own wise leader Chairman Hua Kuo-feng,

In his toast, Chiao Lin-i, vice-chairman of the provincial Revolutionary Committee and chairman of the Canton City Revolutionary Committee, said that ties of kinship bind people “) Kwangtung with the people of Thailand, because of the long, traditional friendship and fvequent contacts between them, They fell particularly close to the distinguished guests com Thailand, When a troupe of young Kwangtung acrobats viuited Thailand not long ago, he Thai people met them with friendship and hospitality and they had the honour to be received and feted by Prime Minister Kriangsak Chamanan. The current visit by his ex- sellency vhe prime minister would be a positive contribution to advancing the friendly relations and cooperation between the two countries and the friendship between the two peoples,

Attending the banquet were Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Chi Peng-fei and Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Han Nien-lung, who accompanied the Thai prime minister and Mrs. Chamanan to Canton,

The distinguished Thai guests arrived in Canton from Kweilin by special plane at noon today. Airport welcomers included Vice-Chairman Chiao Lin-1 and Deputy Commander of the Canton units of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Ou Chih-fu.

[Peking NCNA Domestic Service in Chinese at 1648 GM? on 3 April carries a similar item, rendering this paragraph as follows: "Airport welcomers included Vice Chairman Chiao Lin-i, Vice Chairman Liu Tien-fu of the Kwangtung Provincial Revolutionary Committee, Deputy Commander Ou Chih-fu of the Canton PLA units, Vice Chairmen Meng Hsien-te of the Kwangtung Provincial Revolutionary Committee, Liang Hsiang, vice chairman of the provincial Revolutionary Committee and the Canton Municipal Revolutionary Committee, Vice Chairman

Liu Kuei-lan of the Canton Municipal Revolutionary Committee, and the responsible personnel from the departments concerned, including Yang Ko-chung, Chou Chien-fu and Li Chieh,"]

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The airport was a scene of jubilation, More than 2,000 welcomers beat drums and gongs and performed traditional lion dances. People carried a streamer inscribed "Long live the friendship between the Chinese and Thai peoples".

In the afternoon, the Thai prime minister and his wife visited the Tali people's commne in Nanhai County, accompanied by Vice-Foreign Minister Han Nien-lung and Vice-Chairman Chiao Lin-i, They saw rice seedlings transplanted, and inspected an irrigation project. The distinguished guests were warmly received at the commune.

- In the morning, the guests visited the reed flute cave in Kweilin. Upon their departure ; from Kweilin, the Thai visitors were seen off at the airport by Liu Chung-kuel, vice-

chairman of the Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region Revolutionary Committee, and Kuo Peng,

chairman of the Kweilin City Revolutionary Committee.

RICE CONTRACT SIGiWED WITH MALAYSIA ON 31 MARCH QWO21848Y Peking NCNA in English 1741 GMT 2 Avr 78 OW

[Text] Peking, 2 Apr (HSINHUA)--Acontract on the purchase of rice by Malaysia from China was signed in Kuala Lumpur on 31 March, according to Malaysian press reports,

Datuk Mohamed Sopiec, chairman of the national paddy and rice board, and Li Feng, commercial counsellor of the Chinese Embassy in Malaysia, signed the document, under which China will sell 100,000 tons of rice to Malaysia in the later half of this year.

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PAINTING EXHIBITION IN FiJI--Peking, 31 Mar--An exhibition of Chinese traditional paintings, oil paintings, water colours, new year pictures and engravings was held at the Fiji mseum from March 22 to 30, according ‘to a Suva report. The exhibits, which depicted the life and struggle of the working people in new China, were welcomed by the Fijian public. [Excerpt] [Peking NCNA in English 1255 GMT 27 Mar 78 Ow]

SOUTH ASIA NEPALESE ASSEMBLY DELEGATION VISITS TACHAI

QWO31600Y Peking NCNA in English 1542 GMT 3 Apr 78 OW

[Text] Tachai, 3 Apr (HSINHUA)--The Nepalese National Panchayat delegation led by

Gunjeswari Prasad Singh, chairman of that body's Water tesources Committee, arrived

at the Tachai production brigade this morning. 0n the visit to this national pace-setter : in agriculture in north China's Shansi Province, they were accompanied by Chang Chi-lung, member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

They received a warm welcome from Kuo Feng-lien, vice-chairman of the Shansi Provincial Revolutionary Committee, and leading member of the producti n brigade, and other commune members, Kuo Feng-lien told the visiters of the peasants' achievements in changing their natural environment. She said this was the result of carrying out Chairman Mao!s instructions and acting in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and hard strugg’e.

At the mountainous Tachai brigad., the Nepalese guests inspectea terrac. * elds, the 1 sprinkler irrigation system, reservoirs and the new village that has been built.

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Delegat.on leader Gunjeswari Prasad Singh said: "You have really become the masters of nature, Wepal has many mountains and rivers, so your achievements are very encouraging for us."

The distinguished guests also called at a few peasant homes. They found a wedding going on at one of these and wished happiness and harmony to the couple, who served them wedding cakes, <=» the afternoon, they visited the Tachai brigade exhibition hall, and saw the film "Tachai Fields," on the deep-going changes in the village.

Kuo Fengelien gave a banquet in their honour this evening in the name of the Shansi Provincial Revolutionary Committee and the Tachai production brigade.

NEPAL'S; AMBASSADOR DEPARTS FOR HOME AT END OF OWO31544Y Peking NCNA in English 1513 GMT 3 ° 78 WW

[Text] Peking, 3 Apr (HSINHUA) --K.B, Rana, anbassador of the Kingdom of Nepal to the People's Republic of China, left here for home today at the end of his term of office.

MALDIVES CELEBRATES 13TH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE QW011810Y Peking NCNA in English 1635 GMT 1 Apr 78 OW

[Text] Male, 1 Apr (HSINHUA) --Grand celebrations were held here during the past 3 days to mark the 13th anniversary of the independence of tlie Republic of Maldives. The capital of Male was in a festival mood. The marin streets were decorated with colourful flags. On March 29, the national day, about 6,000 people, of whom many ferried in from outer islands, participated in celebrations held at the national ground in Male. In the afternoon a mass procession took place, National security guards and school children in their holiday best marched past the reviewing stand in high spirits. Traditional dances depicting a national hero fighting against the colonial invaders and showing Maldivian fishermen working were verformed,.

Cabinet ministers headed by Amir Abdul Hannan Haleem, minister of public safety, attended the celebration. Chinese Ambassador to the Maldives Sun Sheng-ewei was present on the occasion,

In the evening, a reception was given to mark the national day. Maldivian Minister of Agriculture Ibrahim Shihab, Minister of Transport Maumoom Abdul Gayoom and Minister of txternal Affairs Fathulla Jameel spoke at the reception. They expressed the determination to safeguard independence and sovereignty and emphasized the importance of economic development. They also reviewed the great achievements scored by the Maldives under

the leadership of President Amir Ibrahim Nasir.

EUROPE TRADE PACT SIGNED WITH EEC MARKS ‘SUPPORT! FOR EUROPE QWO41230Y Peking NCNA in English 1220 GMT 4 Apr 78 W

[Text] Brussels, 3 Apr (HSINHUA) --A trade agreement between the European Economic Community (EC) and the People's Republic of China was signed here today. The agreement was signed by Chinese Foreign Trade Minister Li Chiang on behalf of his government, and by K.B, Andersen, executive president of the EEC Council of Ministers and Danish foreign minister, and Wilhelm Haferkamp, vice-president of the FEC Commission in Charge of Foreign Affairs, on behalf of the European Economic Community.

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Andersen, Haferkamp and J,i Chiang spoke at the signing ceremony, The signing of the agreement, Andersen said, is "a decisive 1...» in the positive development" of relations between the two parties. "We are convinced that the agreement will enable our trade relations to enter a new era," he said, and added; "We are particularly happy about the development of closer and more friendly relations with the People's Republic of China." Haferkamp said that the signing of the agreement is "imrortant not only for economic reasons but also--and above all--for political reasons" and that "the agree- ment is a beginning of the development that will be of benefit to both sides",

Li Chiang said that the signing of the agreement "marks a new development in the politi- cal and economic relations between China and the EEC." He said: "Despite the different social systems between our country and the (EEC) member states, we all face the common task of safeguarding our independence and sovereignty. We have much in common and should support each other. We suppoi't Western Euror? in its union for strength and in its struggle against hegemony, We want to see a united and powerful Europe,"

Andersen gave a reception at the end of the signing ceremony. Haferkamp gave a luncheon in honour of Li Chiang and his party.

Hope for ‘Expansion! QW031319Y Tokyo KYODO in English 1239 GMT 3 Apr 78 OW

[Excerpts] Brussels, 3 Apr (KYODO)--The European Communities and China signed a 5-year agreement for most-favored-nation bilateral trade treatment at the EC headquarters here

Monday morning.

The two sides hope the .wew agreement will lead to a trade expansion equal to the trade between China and Japan, which totaled about 3.5 billion dollars in 1977.

The trade pact calls for China's favorable consideration to imports of EC products and the EC's gradual import liberalization for Chinese-made products. Under the accord, both sides will meet annually. Regarding emergency import curbs, the most difficult issue in the preliminary negotiations, they agreed that each case should be settled through friendly consultations, They also agreed that each side wo: 1 be able to impose unilateral import curbs in emergency cases. The new trade pact is expected to become a base for China to step up its relations with the Common Market under its

four-point state modernization policy. FRG MINISTER, CHANCELLOR RECEIVE FOREIGN TRADE MINISTER LDO4LO“OY Hamburg DPA in German 1026 GYT 4 Apr 78 LD

[Excerpts] Bonn--Federal Economics Minister Otto Graf Lambsdorff today met the Chinese Foreign Trade Minister Li Chiang for a discussion, The Chinese minister was also re- ceived by Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt for'a talk, Li Chiang is the first Chinese cabinet member tu pay a visit to the Federal Republic.

Yesterday in Brussels the Chinese minister signed a 5-year tride agreement between the European Community and the People's Republic of China,

Li Chiang is in the Federal Republic until 10 April at the invitation of Federal Economics Minister Otto Graf Lambsdorff,

The Chinese minister arrived in the Federal Republic during the nig!.‘: by train from Brussels.

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HUANG HUA GIVES BANQUET FOR SWEDISH FOREIGN MINISTER

QWO31712Y Peking NCNA in English 1627 GMT 3 Apr 78 OW

[Text] Peking, 3 Apr (HSINHUA)--Huang Hua, Chinese foreign minister, gave a banquet in : the Great Hall of the People here this evening in honour of Mrs. Karin Soder, Swedish minister of foreign affairs, ana her party, Present were Swedish Ambassador to China ) Kaj Bjork and his wife, members of Mrs, Karin Soder's party and accompanying corres- , pondents., Attending also were Wang Jun-sheng, vice-minister of foreign trade; Sung ; Chih-kuang, assistant foreign minister; and fing Hsueh-sung, vice-president of the ; Chinese People's Association for Friendship With Foreign Countries.

Huang Hua and Mrs. Karin Soder spoke at the banquet which proceeded in an atmosphere full of warm friendship. Foreign Minister Hua Hua said; "The Swedish people love freedom and independence, and they have developed advanced industry, agriculture and science

and technulogy with their own talents and industrious work. We appreciate all these as well as the fact that the Swedish Government pursues a policy cf neutrality, is strength- ening its defence to safeguard its national independence and state sovereignty and in international affairs takes a stand for the equality of all countries, irrespective of their size, and against aggression and expansion,

Sweden was one of the first countries to establish diplomatic rélations with China, he said, "In recent years, exchanges between our two countries in the political, trade, cultural, scientific-technological and sports fields have increased day by day, and our traditional friendship has further developed."

The foreign minister pointed out: "The Chinese people under the leadership of the party Central Committee headed by our wise leader Chairman Hua Kuo-feng have been advancing triumphantly on all fronts along Chairman Mao's révolutionary line." "We are determined to modernize our in‘ustry, agriculture, national defence and science and technology and develop China into a powerful socialist country by the end of this century."

"In international relations we will, as always," he said, "firmly implement Chairman Mao's revolutionary line in foreign affairs and will never seek hegemony or become a superpower, We maintain that all countries, irrespective of their size, should be equal and that bigger countries should not bully smaller ones and stronger countries should no pressure weaker ones, We are opposed to superpower interference in other countries’ ir 2rnal affairs or superpower monopoly of international affairs.

"We will follow Chairman Mao's theory on the three worlds and, while strengthening our unity with other Third World countries, ally with all countries that oppose superpower aggression, subversion, interference, control or bullying in tie struggle against superpower hegemonism.,"

Mrs. Karin Soder said: "The Chinese civilization is very old. Chinese goods were imported into Sweden several hundred years ago, creating a strong interest in things Chinese in Sweden. Over the centuries this interest has developed into real friendship." She said that since the establishment of the People's Republic of China, there had been close cooperation between the two governments and peoples. "Our cooperation is well established in many fields."

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"Our trade, which was slackening for a few years, is now showing a new impetus. That is fine. There are other opportunities in the industrial and scientific fields that we should use to our mutual advantage."

Mrs, Karin Soder said; "Great changes have taken place in China in the last two years. Under the leadership of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng and the party Central Committee, the Chinese people has set oui on a determined course to modernize China, At the recent Fifth National People's Congress you have set yourselves important economic targets, the achievement of which will make China an economic world power before the end of the century. This will be a new Long March ahead, I have no doubt that China will attain

its new goals."

She stressed; "Irrespective of our size and our different political and economic sys- tems, each of us has a special obligation to contribute to the maintenanve of world peace, Sweden is a small neutral country in northern Europe. Together with our Scandinavian neighbours we try to maintain a stable military and political situation in the Nordic area that is free from tension.

"China is a great power, whose influence is global in several ways, for instance through the example China is setting by its policy of self-reliance. My visit here today is a proof of the importance we attach to our cooperation with China in international affairs."

Swedish Minister's Interview LD032215Y Stockholm Domestic Service in Swedish 1700 GMT 3 Apr 78 LD

{Text] Swedish Foreign Minister “arin Soder arrived in Peking last night, 14 hours late because of bad weather. During the morning she had talks with her Chinese counterpart, Huang Hua. A little later in the day she visited the old city of the emperors in the center of Peking, where she described the first discussions with radio correspondent

Rolf Soderberg:

([Soder--begin recording] (?In Peking) I had a 3-hour discussion, and one can say that the [word indistinct] I had today, I explained our view on security [words indistinct] in the north and in Europe, but also (?some) international security issues. We did not have time to go into them today. In addition, I explained our work in the field of disarmament and our preparations for the disarmament session in New York.

{Question] With regard to security, have the Chinese in any way spoken about the