FBIS SOV 88 246 22 December 1988 Cuban Delegation Leaves for Treaty Signing LD2112182788 Moscow TASS in English 0738 GMT 21 Dec 88 Text Havana December 21 TASS An official Cuban delegation left for New York on Tuesday to sign an agreement on South West Africa. The agreements will end the series of talks held by Cuba, Angola and South Africa with participation.
The delegation is headed by Jorge Risquet Valdes, member of the Politburo and Secretariat of the Cuban Communist Party Central Committee.
The official Cuban news agency AIN says that Angola, Cuba and South Africa are to sign a three sided treaty on all major aspects of a peace settlement in South West Africa. The document should guarantee sovereignty and territorial integrity to Angola, and grant independence to Namibia in full compliance with Security Council Resolution 435.
Cuba and Angola will also sign a document on the withdrawal of Cuban internationalist troops from Angola.
Conclusion of Colombian CP Congress Reported PM2112104988 Moscow PRAVDA in Russian 18 Dec 88 Second Edition p5 Own correspondent Zagorskiy and TASS correspondent Fedorin dispatch: Colombian Communist Party Congress Ended Text Bogota, 17 Dec The 15th Colombian Communist Party PCC Congress has ended here. CPSU delegation head Kiselev, candidate member of the CPSU Central Committee and second secretary of the Kirghiz Communist Party Central Committee, spoke at the closing ceremony. On behalf of the Central Committee and Gorbachev, general secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, he cordially greeted the congress delegates and all the Colombian Communists and wished them success in fulfilling the tasks set by the forum, in the struggle for the basic interests of the Colombian working people, against domination by imperialism and transnational companies.
38 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS The leaders of the Communist Party delegations from Cuba and Vietnam, and a representative of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front in El Salvador, also addressed the assembly. The congress expressed its fraternal solidarity with the just struggle of the peoples of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chile, and other countries. PCC Central Committee plenum took place not long before the beginning of the concluding session. Gilberto Vieira was once again elected general secretary of the PCC Central Committee. Alvaro Vasquez became deputy general secretary of the PCC Central Committee.
The plenum also elected the PCC Central Committee Executive Committee consisting of 18 people.
Gilberto Vieira gave the concluding address at the closing of the congress. He presented the results of the forum work, and noted the positive progress in the international arena as a result of the restructuring in international relations, in the spirit of the new political thinking taking place largely thanks to the USSR peaceloving policy. Vieira stated that the PCC most important aim is to extricate the country peacefully from crisis by means of a political settlement of the internal conflict and the creation of a pluralist government which would struggle for peace and democracy. In this connection he once again drew the attention of those present to the peace plan adopted by the congress, one of whose basic provisions is the proposal to establish direct dialogue between the government and the insurgents at national and regional levels. The PCC Central Committee general secretary said that Colombian Communists are not intimidated by the campaign of terror and repressions unleashed against them by reaction something demonstrated by the very fact that the 15th congress was being held openly in downtown Bogota.
Costa Rican Ambassador Arrives in Moscow PM2112142388 Moscow IZVESTIYA in Russian 21 Dec 88 Morning Edition 4 TASS report under general heading: Official Reports Text Enrique Obregon Valverde, Costa Rican ambassador to the USSR, arrived in Moscow 19 December.