First Published: In
Ulaanbaatar, in Novosti Mongolii,
in Russian, 4 December 1981, pages 1-2.
Source of the translation: Mongolia Report, No.
339
(18 June 1982), pages 1-12. United States Defense Technical Information Center,
Arlington (VA), USA.
Transcription/HTML/Markup for marxists.org: April
2024.
Comrades! The draft national economic plans for 1981-1985 and for the period up to 1982, together with the draft State Budget for 1982, will be discussed at this party Central Committee Plenum and the next session of the Great People's Hural of the MPR. Party Central Committee Secretary Comrade D. Molomjamts will present a report on this subject at this Plenum.
The year 1981, which is drawing to a close, has been filled with signal events in the life of our party and country. This year we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the MPRP, the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Mongolian People's Revolution, the 60th anniversary of the historic meeting between the great Lenin and Sukhe Bator and the signing of the first Mongolian-Soviet Agreement on Friendship and Cooperation.
The 18th Congress of our party was held in May of this year, which specified new, important development goals for our country's economy and culture, and specified appropriate measures to achieve a further rise in the people's standard of living. Just as in the past, in accomplishing the tasks of the new five-year plan we shall rely primarily on the growing economic assistance of the Soviet Union. In 19811985 Soviet economic aid will almost double in comparison with the preceding five- year plan.
The historic 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was held at the beginning of this year; it became an outstanding event in international affairs. The Leninist party congress became convincing proof of the confident and dynamic advance being made by the Soviet people along the road of building communism and a tireless struggle to strengthen peace throughout the world.
Our homeland is confidently developing along the path of building the material and technological foundation of socialism. Our economy is steadily growing, year by year. The aggregate social product, generated national income and social labor productivity growth figures for 1981 exceed the average annual growth figures for the preceding five years.
The working people of our country, engaging in socialist competition in honor of the historic anniversaries of the party and people's revolution, have achieved concrete results in meeting the plan targets of the first year of the 7th Five-Year Plan. Our rural working people produced 9.1 million head of young livestock, which is 7 percent more than the figure for 1980.
This country's industrial enterprises fulfilled the gross output plan for the first 10 months of this year by 103.5 percent. Labor productivity in industry was up 4.1 percent over the corresponding period of last year. A number of industrial enterprises have produced a substantial quantity of above-target output.
Completion of construction, by the 60th anniversary of the Mongolian People's Revolution, of the Erdenet Joint Mongolian-Soviet Mining and Concentration Combine, which ensures a substantial increase in this country's industrial output and export resources, was an important event.
The social program advanced at the 18th MPRP Congress is being consistently carried out. Personal cash income is up this year by 5.6 percent over 1980. Budget ap-propriations for sociocultural measures, for free schooling for children and free medical care for the population, and for assistance to mothers with a large number of children are steadily increasing. Medicine is given without charge to babies up to the age of one year. Construction workers receive additional wage amounts for long and meritorious service.
Comrades! The attention of this Plenum should be concentrated on eliminating bottlenecks and correcting serious deficiencies in the performance of party, government, economic, cultural and public organizations in the area of economic and cultural development.
In organizing implementation of the resolutions of the 18th MPRP Congress, we should strive to achieve plan fulfillment in all areas of the economy and culture.
All our organizations should devote special attention to ensuring uninterrupted growth and development of agricultural production, normal growth in livestock herds and productivity, and increased farm crop yields. To achieve this we must work with a will to improve style, forms and methods of guiding the development of agricultural production on the part of party, government and agricultural agencies.
One should intelligently utilize in this area party and government measures aimed at encouraging agricultural production. We know that since 1971 procurement prices on principal livestock products have been increased five times, in amounts from 5 to 230 percent.
In conformity with the decision of the 18th MPRP Congress, beginning next year certain steps will be taken to offer incentive to produce certain livestock products Effective 1 January 1982, for example, procurement price will be raised as follows: by 17.8 percent on goat meat; by 30 percent on horses; by 100 percent on goat's hair; by 54.9 percent on camel's hair; by 15 percent on lamb's wool; by 100 percent on karakul skins; by 96.1 percent on lambskins; by 230 percent on kidskins; and by 47 percent on milk delivered for state centralized procurement between 1 November and 1 June of the following year.
The intensive program of development of our economy targeted in the 7th Five-Year Plan aims at improving the efficiency and quality of the work performance of all our organizations, at complete and rational utilization of available material, financial and labor resources. The party Central Committee demands that party, government, public and economic organizations proceed in an efficient and businesslike manner with carrying out the national economic plan for 1982.
The party Central Committee believes that strict observance of plan discipline is of primary importance for consistent implementation of the socioeconomic tasks advanced at the 18th MPRP Congress. Practical experience indicates that failures to meet state plan targets take place when a campaign to achieve the target is not properly organized, where there is lacking a spirit of innovative approach to accomplishing stated targets, where there is inadequate demandingness, and where proper attention is not focused on increasing the responsibility of persons in charge of specific areas in regard to state plan fulfillment.
Our principal shortcoming is poor organization of party and government Verification. We must seek to ensure that each and every worker develops a reflex of an implacable attitude toward all negative elements which impede our forward movement. We must ensure that well organized verification becomes a continuously operating positive stimulus and companion in the work of party, government and public organizations at all levels.
Monitoring and verification of execution is an indissoluble, unique component part and the heart of organizational work, the right hand of party, government and public organizations in performance of their principal functions. Well-organized monitoring and verification of execution should be utilized as a powerful means of day-by-day correction of discovered shortcomings and assurance of unity of word and deed.
In order to achieve the stated goals the directives, decrees and tasks of our organizations should always be specific in indicating the person responsible for executing the goals and the timetable for their completion.
Effective monitoring and verification of execution should serve as a breath of fresh air for all of our organizations and their officials. It follows from this that each official within the party edifice should be aggressive in verification, mastering well this reliable instrument for shaking out all dust and dirt.
Well-organized verification should become for our organizations an instrument for ensuring unity of decision and execution, maintaining a high level of discipline and organization, and a means of increasing the personal responsibility of cadres.
All types of oversight should be constantly utilized: party, ministerial, public, and people's control. People's control [volunteer inspection groups] aims at combining governmental inspection with public inspection by working people in all realms of the affairs of state and people.
Top-echelon officials should participate extensively in exercising oversight. V. I. Lenin demanded that the deputy chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars devote one or two hours each day to personal verification of performance. If even an hour a day is devoted to this, this would mean that in the six working days of the week we should devote six hours to oversight and verification, in other words, almost an entire working day.
Extensive participation by party members and party-unaffiliated in exercising over-sight and verification of execution of party and government decisions and observance of the laws of the state should ensure a close combination of oversight from above with mass oversight from below, on the part of the working people. It is the direct obligation of party organizations to supervise the extensive involvement of working people in organizing oversight.
The principal obligation of the Central Committee apparatus of aymag and city party committees consists in verifying on the spot execution of party decisions, rendering practical assistance to lower-level organizations in correcting elucidated, deficiencies and organizing execution of party and government decisions, and in strengthening discipline.
Oversight should not be limited to determination of deficiencies and diagnosis, but should conclude with correction of discovered shortcomings, curing of ailments, and elimination of their causes.
Continuously improving the oversight mechanism, the party sets for itself the goal of ensuring a high degree of efficiency, organization and follow-through by cadres. Proceeding from this, it is Our obligation to develop in a systematic manner follow-through discipline in each and every official of party, government and public organizations, by steadily increasing demandingness and by better organization of political indoctrination work among labor forces.
Oversight and verification of execution should permeate all the activities of party organizations, beginning with party groups and primary party organizations. Verification of execution of party assignments, labor and job obligations by each and every Communist should be efficiently organized precisely in party groups and primary party organizations.
In order to achieve systematic improvement in oversight and verification of execution, we must ensure extensive criticism and self-criticism in all components of party, government, economic, public and cultural organizations. The primary obligation of leader personnel of all our organizations and of each and every Communist is to work resolutely to eliminate all hindrances and obstacles revealed by various forms of verification. Indomitable persistence and unrelenting aggressiveness should always be displayed in this matter.
Party organizations are called upon to devote considerable attention to systematic improvement in the performance of people’s control agencies, giving them the requisite assistance in correcting existing deficiencies and improving their activities.
Party organizations should seek to ensure that their people receive regular briefings from officials of various organizations on measures being taken to correct shortcomings and errors of omission discovered by people’s control agencies, and this work should become a component part of the leadership process.
All our organizations should do a good job of organizing the process of informing party members and work forces on the results of inspection activities and measures adopted to correct shortcomings discovered by party oversight or people's control agencies.
Every individual should constantly bear in mind that the absence of or poorly organized oversight as well as a low degree of demandingness on oneself and others lead to the appearance and growth of weeds in our ranks. Weeds are the worst enemy of a good harvest. It is our sacred task promptly to pull out by the roots weeds of all types and varieties.
Each and every member of the socialist society is obligated strictly to evaluate his activities and conformity between the level of his knowledge and abilities with today's demands, and constantly to expand his horizons of knowledgeability, bearing in mind that history is not standing still, that every day there is an increase in the pace of scientific and technological advance, work forms and methods are enriched, and the know-how and abilities of leading labor performers become improved.
Working systematically to increase demandingness on ourselves and others, we should always ensure an implacable attitude toward violations of party, state and labor discipline and eliminate cases of failure to carry out party and government decisions and to observe the laws of the state.
Each and every official of party, governmental, economic and cultural organizations should constantly self-analyze his performance, ensure a high degree of organization and self-discipline, and campaign vigorously against instances of poor organization and complacency. Self-critical appraisal of one's performance should become an effective means of increasing people's efficiency, discipline, and organization.
The party demands that we, at all times, wage a resolute campaign against the antipodes of the finest human qualities, against lack of organization, lack of discipline, complacency, conceit, arrogance, sham and deception. Party organizations are obligated constantly to verify how each Communist is carrying out the party's statutory demands and how he is increasing his personal demandingness on himself and others. The demandingness of cadres at all echelons should be strong and mutual. It should be combined with comradely mutual assistance according to the principle "demand and help."
An implacable campaign against specific persons responsible for mismanagement and waste in the various branches and sectors of our economy should be the constant target of purposeful actions by party organizations.
At all levels of party leadership we are obligated to verify in a regular and systematic manner the performance of party organizations in the area of strengthening the indoctrination of all working people in a spirit of thrifty attitude toward socialist property and a resolute campaign against waste and mismanagement of all kinds. Of great importance in this matter is graphic demonstration of both positive and negative, utilizing all means, including the mass information media.
Execution of party and government directives and fulfillment of economic and cultural development plans should be judged not on the basis of promises and declarations but solely on the basis of concrete achieved results. I recently met and talked with the secretary of the party committee of one of the ministries. He began with stating how many meetings and sessions had been planned and how many had been held. I was compelled to state to him that in the Central Committee we do not want to waste our time on hearing reports on planned and held meetings and sessions, that the party assesses the performance of our organizations and their leaders not according to number of held meetings and conferences but on the basis of concrete, palpable achieved results. We should always adhere precisely to this rule. The party demands that we always secure high end results in direction of economic and cultural development as well as in all other matters.
In examining things from this position, we are greatly concerned by the unsatisfactory state of performance at the Ministry of Forestry and Woodworking Industry and the Ministry of Public Education, for the deficient style and methods of leadership of these ministries were discussed at previous central committee plenums. The party Central Committee expects of the ministers, comrades D. Tseden and R. Sanjaasuren, immediate steps to correct existing serious deficiencies in their performance.
Comrades! In verifying the performance of our organizations and receiving reports we should begin not with how many meetings and conferences were held and how many papers have been written, but with achieved end results in execution of state plans and decisions of higher-level agencies. Time should not be wasted on bureaucratic bustle.
We must always adhere to these strict rules, in all our organizations.
The party demands that we listen to data on achieved end results in fulfilling monthly, quarterly and annual plans, on employed interesting and useful work forms and methods, with the aid of which positive results have been achieved.
One serious deficiency of our organizations is the study of cadres on the basis of questionnaires, not according to their practical work performance results. It is our direct obligation at all times to increase the responsibility of officials at all echelons, to judge the practical qualities of cadres not according to promises, not according to plans and papers, but according to party and government plan target achievement results.
I believe it essential specially to emphasize that with a constant growth in the number of specialists in the economy and culture, the responsibility of party organizations of all levels, right up to the party Central Committee, is increasing immeasurably in the area of study, selection and placement of cadres, and their indoctrination in a spirit of high demandingness on themselves and on others, and a highly responsible attitude toward the assigned task.
Officials of top party agencies, including the party Central Committee, as well as ministries and government agencies spend a great deal of time shuffling papers, which get in the way of meeting with and talking to people. Every worker in a party, government and public organization should develop the habit of constant contact with working people, studying matters not from documents but from the state of affairs in specific organizations, from the actual results of execution of state plans and pledges.
The primary task of party, governmental, public, economic, and cultural organizations is to ensure the most painstaking and attentive approach to worker letters and complaints, bearing in mind the fact that there are major shortcomings in this work both at the central level and in the localities. The state of affairs as regards analysis of workers letters and complaints should become the subject of discussion and adoption of measures in party organizations, on boards of ministries and agencies, in aymag, city, rayon and somon administrations, in public, economic and other organizations.
Comrades! The people of our country, all working people are following with great interest the development of world events.
As we know, through the fault of the most aggressive imperialist circles, particularly U.S. imperialism and hegemonist forces working together with them, the world situation remains tense. The Reagan Administration and NATO ruling circles are launching furious attacks against the process of détente, against present world international political realities, especially in the 1970's. They are vainly attempting to turn to their advantage the advance of world events, to weaken and drive back the forces of peace and socialism, and to crush the struggle of peoples for national and social liberation.
The present U.S. administration is implementing a new global strategy, aimed at gaining U.S. domination in world affairs. Attempting to achieve military superiority over the Soviet Union, U.S. imperialist circles are escalating the arms race and increasing the production of new weapons of mass destruction.
Washington strategists are persistently seeking to expand the realm of activities of the aggressive NATO bloc, are hastily putting together military-political alliances in various parts of the world, and are establishing so-called "rapid deployment forces" with the aim of direct interference in the affairs of other sovereign nations and crushing the national liberation movement of peoples.
The Soviet Union and the other socialist countries place in opposition to the hopeless policy of imperialism, which displays its entire aggressive essence, a profoundly peace-seeking, Leninist foreign policy, a policy of active defense of peace and world security. The Peace Program for the 1980's, advanced at the 26th CPSU Congress, specified ways to strengthen peace and avert the threat of war. It specifies measures to reduce both nuclear missile and conventional arms and contains proposals for settling existing and preventing new conflicts and crisis situations.
The peace initiatives of the Soviet Union and the other nations of the Soviet community are exerting enormous favorable, stabilizing influence on the course of development of international events.
Our party has always attached and continues to attach primary importance to strengthening the unity and solidarity of the socialist countries, their close interaction and coordination of foreign policy efforts. The necessity of strengthening the unity of the brother parties, countries and peoples is more urgent than ever before, because international imperialism is today waging a frontal attack against world socialism, making every effort to undermine it from within. This is evidenced in particular by intrigues on the part of the imperialists and hegemonists in regard to People's Poland and socialist Cuba, as well as the brother countries of Indochina. They do not hide their plans to weaken Poland, to detach it from the harmonious family of the socialist community, thus undermining its unified might. Everybody knows what serious consequences would result ^rom disruption of the correlation of military-political forces established on the European continent and throughout the world.
We firmly believe that the Polish United Workers' Party and the Polish working people will be able to overcome the crisis which has arisen in that country and will be able to defend their socialist achievements against the encroachments of counterrevolutionaries and international reaction.
U.S. imperialism is endangering the socialist gains of the heroic Cuban people. The Reagan Administration is sharply stepping up military and political pressure on revolutionary Cuba and is drawing the noose of economic blockade of Cuba increasingly tighter. The large-scale Pentagon naval maneuvers recently held in the Caribbean area constituted a direct threat to the independence and sovereignty of the Island of Freedom.
Once again expressing their warm fighting solidarity with the brother Cuban people, the Mongolian people resolutely condemn the aggressive actions of the U.S. militarists and demand that they cease and desist acts of provocation against socialist Cuba.
Our people stand firmly on the side of the Afghan people, against whom Washington and the Beijing hegemonists are jointly waging an undeclared war, with the active complicity of certain reactionary regimes in that region. Sending in armed bands onto the territory of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, the enemies of the Afghan people are making every effort to destroy their revolutionary gains and to hinder them from taking the road of peaceful and stable socioeconomic development.
There is presently taking place in Afghanistan a difficult but steady process of stabilization of domestic affairs. The 1978 April Revolution is bearing fruit with each passing day. The government of the DRA is sincerely striving to achieve A political settlement, expressing good will and a willingness to consider the desires of potential participants in future negotiations.
The Mongolian People's Republic fully supports the contructive proposals advanced by the government of the DRA and believes that their implementation would lead to rapid and complete normalization of the Afghanistan situation. We are deeply convinced that nobody is capable of turning the peace-loving Afghan people from their chosen path, which leads to peace, democracy, and social progress.
The Mongolian People's Republic, as was reaffirmed at the 18th Congress of the MPRP, is earnestly seeking ways leading to an improvement in the situation on the Asian continent. With this goal in mind, our country has proposed drawing up and signing a convention on mutual nonaggression and repudiation of use of force among the nations of Asia and the Pacific. It is pleasant to note that our proposal has evoked positive and favorable responses in many countries of Asia and other parts of the world. This is natural, for the proposal of the MPR is in the interests of millions of people throughout the world and is dictated by the desire to eliminate focal points of tension and conflict on the Asian continent.
We should note that imperialist circles, together with the Chinese hegemonists, are stepping up their hostile actions and intrigues against the cause of peace, freedom, independence and social progress of the peoples of Asia. There is being formed what is virtually an aggressive military-political tripartite alliance between the United States, China, and Japan, the cutting edge of which is directed primarily against the Soviet Union and the other Asian socialist countries. The Reagan Administration's decision to sell modern offensive weapons to China, as well as the intensifying remilitarization of Japan are fraught with a serious threat not only to their neighbors but also to world security.
Particular concern and a strong protest on the part of the peoples of Asia are evoked by malicious plans being nurtured by the Pentagon to deploy medium-range missiles in Asian countries. Deployment of such missiles in certain parts of Asia, in Japan or China in particular, would have a sharply destabilizing effect on the already extremely tense situation on this continent.
The policies and actions of Beijing ruling circles continue to constitute an extremely negative factor in the overall Asian situation. China's leaders are making every effort to step up their "strategic interaction" and military-political cooperation with the most reactionary forces, with U.S. imperialism in particular, are intensifying their animosity toward and rivalry with the socialist countries and the forces of national liberation and social progress.
The events which have taken place since our party's 18th Congress have convincingly affirmed the correctness of the assessment made by this top-level forum of Mongolian Communists of the essence of Chinese policy and the necessity of a resolute struggle against the Maoist foreign policy of the Beijing rulers.
Southeast Asia remains a region of intensive struggle by peoples for the right to determine their destiny independently. Shots continue to be fired from the Chinese side of the border between Vietnam and China. Through their accomplices in this region, Beijing and Washington are stubbornly attempting to restore the old order in Laos and Kampuchea and to push their peoples off the path they have chosen. In spite of various obstacles put up by hostile forces, however, the peoples of Indochina are striding confidently along the road of progress and strengthening of national independence.
The MPR fully supports the well-known proposals of the three brother nations of Indochina which are aimed at transforming Southeast Asia into a zone of peace, stability and cooperation, and sincerely wishes the peoples of these countries continued success in building a new life and in protecting their revolutionary achievements from the encroachments of imperialist and hegemonist forces.
The Near East remains a highly dangerous focal point of tension, the explosion of which can lead to the most serious international complications. The events of recent months have shown that , the Camp David separate deal has led not to improvement but on the contrary to a substantial worsening of the problem of a Near East settlement. The U.S. military, the Zionist aggressors and their Arab stooges are brazenly showing their lack of interest in improving the situation in this region, a fact which is evidenced by the military exercise code-named "Bright Star," which constitutes an act of provocation toward all progressive Arab regimes. Strategic cooperation between the United States and Israel, as well as attempts to expand the zone of NATO activities to the Near East are leading to a further buildup of the U.S. and NATO military presence in this explosive region.
The government of the MPR believes that the most appropriate and effective means of achieving a Near Eastern settlement is the proposal by the Soviet Union to hold an international conference, at which, alongside all interested parties, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) should take part as the sole legitimate representative of the Arab people of Palestine.
The Mongolian People's Republic strongly supports the Soviet proposal to draft and implement confidence-building measures in the Far East, to hold an international conference on the Indian Ocean, and to hold talks on the Persian Gulf. Implementation of these initiatives would make a weighty contribution to the cause of improving the situation in Asia, preserving and strengthening world détente.
We are deeply convinced that today there is no other intelligent means of settling issues, no matter how acute and complex, than negotiation, than peaceful, honest and responsible political dialogue. The need for serious negotiations is dictated by the risk of a world nuclear conflict, which is increasing with each day lost to negotiation. This applies in full measure particularly to Europe, where the question of lessening the threat of war and restraining the arms race is the most acute. NATO plans to deploy U.S. nuclear missile systems on the territory of a number of Western European countries have caused a sharp worsening of the political climate on the European continent. The Reagan Administration's decision to commence full-scale production of neutron warheads, intended primarily for the European "theater," constitutes a new stage in escalation of the arms race. With this the United States is attempting to shift the approximate balance of power in Europe in favor of the West, which would lead to the establishment of a qualitatively new military-strategic situation on this continent.
The Soviet Union and the other socialist countries, displaying firmness and principledness, consistently advocate negotiation as the only intelligent alternative to the imperialist policy from a position of strength.
The forces of peace and progress are capable of pushing back and eliminating the threat of another world war. Today the struggle of peoples and all progressive forces throughout the world to avert the threat of war is assuming an unprecedented scale and depth. Millions of people of the most diverse orientation, belonging to various political, public, religious and other organizations, are taking part in this campaign. The peoples of Europe and people of good will throughout the world are becoming increasingly more deeply aware of their direct responsibility for resolving the most critical problem of the present day — holding nuclear war in check and defending the peace.
One can also note that in the ruling circles of some Western countries there is an increasing awareness of the extent to which Washington's aggressive line is contrary to the vital interests of these nations. Sober-minded Western political leaders are increasingly more resolutely opposing the arms race and supporting continued dialogue with the socialist nations.
The recently ended official visit to the FRG by CPSU Central Committee General Secretary Comrade L. I. Brezhnev, chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, and the talks conducted during this visit convincingly demonstrated the Soviet nation's deep desire for peace, its sincere aspiration to maintain and strengthen a policy of détente and peaceful cooperation on a basis of equality.
The Mongolian people are in enthusiastic approval of the results of this lofty peace mission, viewing them as a victory of reason, as a vivid expression of the tireless efforts of the CPSU, the Soviet State and Comrade Leonid Il'ich Brezhnev personally to defend and strengthen peace and to eliminate the threat of war, particularly nuclear war.
The results of Comrade L. I. Brezhnev's visit to the FRG, conducted at a tense and critical moment in world development, constitute a major contribution to the cause of further strengthening bilateral ties between the Soviet Union and the FRG and to the cause of improving the situation in Europe, reestablishing an atmosphere of mutual understanding and trust between nations, preserving and continuing the process of détente.
Comrade L. I. Brezhnev's visit and his talks with West German government and political leaders graphically confirm the viability of the policy, specified at the 26th CPSU Congress, of settling disputes and complex international problems by means of extensive political dialogue.
A successful conclusion of the Madrid meeting of representatives of 35 nations which took part in the Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe would to a significant degree promote a radical improvement of the situation in Europe.
The cause of peace can only be furthered if the Madrid meeting results in a concrete decision on holding a European conference on military détente and disarmament as proposed by the Soviet Union.
The Mongolian People's Republic also welcomes the Soviet-American talks on limiting nuclear arms in Europe, which opened in Geneva on 30 November of this year, and sincerely wishes success to these talks.
Comrades! The current upsurge in aggressiveness on the part of the most reactionary imperialist circles is due primarily to a radical change in the correlation of sociopolitical forces in the world arena and the progressive loss by monopoly capital of its international position. It is connected with further weakening of the foundations of world imperialism as a consequence of the deepening crisis phenomena in its citadel and reflects its attempts to overcome them by means of external political adventures and to dump all the consequences on the shoulders of peoples.
The main goal of the campaign currently being waged by the Soviet Union and the nations of the socialist community, supported by peace-seeking forces throughout the world, is to avert a world thermonuclear catastrophe, to reduce tension, to preserve and strengthen détente. The primary duty and main concern of our party,
our government and the entire Mongolian people is to make whatever contribution we can to this sacred struggle.
I call upon Central Committee members and candidate members to discuss in a businesslike manner the agenda items presented for discussion at this Plenum.