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CPSU Politburo transcript,
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August 1977 (excerpt)
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MEETING
OF THE
CC
CPSU POLITBURO
11
August 1977
Chaired
by: Comrade KIRILENKO, A.P.
Attended:
Comrades Y.V. Andropov, F.D. Kulakov, K.T. Mazurov, A.Y. Pel'she, P.N. Demichev,
M.S. Solomentsev, I.V. Kapitonov, M.V. Zimianin, Y.P. Riabov, K.V. Rusakov.
[.
. .]11. On additional measures for normalization of the situation in the Horn
of Africa and on assistance and support for the leadership of Ethiopia.
(The issue was presented by comrades Andropov, Kuznetsov, Sokolov).
KIRILENKO: Leonid llych [Brezhnev] requested that
the Ethiopian appeal be considered as soon as possible, and to do everything
possible to give them the necessary assistance. He entrusted Comrades Gromyko,
Ustinov, and Andropov to prepare proposals. The Comrades have fulfilled the
assignment.
MAZUROV, ANDROPOV, PELSHE emphasize the importance
of the proposed measures for assistance to Ethiopia.
The resolution was adopted.
[Source:
APRF, f. 3, op. 120, d. 37, ll. 51, 56; translated by Svetlana Savranskaya.]
