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Comrade Kim II Sung, General Secretary of the "The death of Comrade Mao Tsetung Is a great lossf

: Central Committee•"" of • 'the- Worlers': Party of Korea, not only to the Chinese people but also. to the Korean President of the State of the Democratic People's Re• people-and the world revolutionary people. ,; public of Korea and the great leader of the- Korean "Though Comrade Mao Tsetung has departed from people, oh the- afternoon of September 10 called at the us, his precious exploits will shine for ever." , j "j Chinese Embassy in Pyongyang to express condolences on the death of Chairman- Mao Tsetung. .He presented The Central Committee of the Workers' Party ot a wreath. . . .. : Korea, the Central People's Committee of the Demo• cratic People's Republic of Korea and the ' D.P'-R.KS ' President" Kim U Sung stood in silent tribute' be• Administration Council sent wreaths to the Chinese fore, the portrait' of Chairman Mao Tsetuhg: He then Embassy on. September' 10.; -. i...." told Shih Kub-pao,; Charge d'Affaires ad interim of the Chinese. Embassy: "I feel deeply grieved over the pass• . Other Korean Party and government leaders pay-* ing" away' of Comrade Mao' Tsetung, ' The whole ing condolence calls, at the Chinese. Embassy on Sep-; membership of our Party and all "the people of our tember 10 were: Kim Dong. Gyu, Kang Ryang Uk, Pak country as well as I myself are in boundless sorrow like Sung Ghul, O Jin U, So Choi, Li Gun Mo, Yon Ilyong

the Chinese people. - -;' Muk, Li Yong-Mu; Chora Mun Sop-, Hyon Mu Gwang, O Back Ryong, Hah Ik Su, Kim Yong Nam, Kim Choi "I believe that the relations of friendship and co• Man, Kang Song San, Ho Dam, Kong Jin Tae, Yun Gi operation between the'peoples " of Korea and China Bok, Li Jong Ok, Kim Hwan and Hwang Jang Yop. founded by Comrade Mao Tsetung will last- for gener• ations.. -.We are determined to side for ever with the '.•... -•; Chinese- people and fight shoulder to shoulder with them against the. common enemy. - - - Comrade , - Eirst Secretary of the "Please convey our condolences to the Central Central Committee "of the .Albanian Party of Labour, Committee of the Communist Party of China and the called at the Chinese Embassy in on the morn• Chinese people." ' ing of September 10 to'express "deep grief and condol• ences on the passing away' of Chairman'Mao Tsetung President Kim n Sung wrote in the book of con• and laid a wreath before his portrait. dolence: "I express deep condolences over the death of Comrade-Mao Tsetung, the great leader of the Chinese Among those who also made condolence calls at the people,, the closest comrade-in-arms of the Korean peo• Embassy were Haxhi Lleshi, President of the Presidium ple and. one of the outstanding leaders of the interna• of the "People's Assembly of "the -People's Republic of tional communist movement and working-class -move• Albania; , Member of the Political ment. Bureau of the Central Committee of the Albanian Party of Labour and Chairman-of the Council of Ministers; "Comrade Mao Tsetung was the great proletarian and other Albanian Party and; state leaders Adil Car- revolutionary who founded the Conamunist - Party of cani, , Hekuran Isal, , Kadri China,, the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the Hazbiu, ,-, , Rita People's Republic of China, led the revolutionary cause Marko, , Llambi Gegpriftl, Pilo PeristerL of the Chinese people to brilliant victory and perform• Qirj.ako Mihali, and Petro Dode. ; ed immortal exploits in accelerating the liberation cause of the oppressed nations and oppressed people Comrades Nexhmlje Hoxha and-Nesti Nase also and the victory of the international communist - move• made-condolence-, calls.- -

September 30; 1976 In deep grief and sincerity, Enver Hoxha, Haxhl Tsetung was an outstanding man who devoted all his. Lleshi, Mehmet Shehu and other Albanian comrades life to the cause of revolution and construction of New stood in silent tribute before the portrait of Chairman China and made important contributions to the strug• Mao Tsetung. Then, - Comrade Hoxha told Han Po, gle against imperialism, colonialism and neo-colonial- Charge d'Affaires ad interim of the Chinese Embassy: ism and the cause for world peace and socialism. Com• "On behalf of the Albanian people, the Central Com• rade Ceausescu described his meeting with Comrade mittee of the Albanian Party of Labour, the Presidium, Mao Tsetung in Peking in 1971 as a particularly im- of the People's Assembly, the Council of Ministers and .portant event in the history of the development of the all Albanian Communists, I express deepest condol• relations of friendship and co-operation between the ences on the passing away of Comrade Mao Tsetung, out• two Parties, the two countries and the two peoples. He standing and glorious Marxist-Leninist, the great lead• stressed that Chairman Mao Tsetung was an. outstand• er of the Chinese people' and the most esteemed ing fighter in the international communist movement friend of Albania. He will live in our hearts for ever. and a great friend of the Romanian people. His death We will certainly strengthen friendship and unity be• is a great loss not only to the Chinese people but also tween our two Parties, our two peoples and our two to the Romanian people. Comrade Ceausescu reaffirm• countries. Eternal glory to Comrade Mao Tsetung!" ed the feelings of solidarity and friendship cherished by the Romanian Communist Party and the Romanian • ' A wreath was laid jointly by the Central. Com-. people for -the Communist Party of China and the Chi• Eiittee of the Albanian Party, of Labour, the Presidium, nese people during moments of grief. He expressed of-the People's Assembly and. the Council of Ministers. the resolve of the Romanian Communist Party and the. :.' Representatives of the ministries and committees of Romanian people to exert all efforts to further develop the Albanian Government,. mass . organizations, • the the relations of friendship and co-operation between Executive Committee of the Tirana District People's the two Parties, the two countries and the two -peoples. Council, factories and mines, agricultural co-operatives Among those who made condolence "calls at the and schools also, made' condolence calls at the Chinese Chinese Embassy were also members and' alternate Embassy. ' . ;. members-of-the Central Committee of the'Romanian Communist Party, members' of the State Council and Romania. ...'•• the government, directors, of departments - of the Party Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu, General Secretary o* Central Committee, top-ranking generals^ leading, mem• bers of central -government organs, mass organizations};. the Romanian. Gommtm|^i^ar|v>eaRd,:^:esidait .-of the Socialist Republic.of Romania,"called at the Chinese Industrial enterprises, educational and cultural institu• Embassy in Bucharest on the afternoon, of September tions, prominent figures ."of various circles and repre^ 11 to express deep condolences on the passing away, of sentatives of the masses.' Chairman Mao Tsetung.' ' . Accompanying him were Elena Ceausescu, Member Democratic Kampuchea of the Executive Political Committee of the Central Khieu- Samphan, President of the Presidium of the Committee' of the Romanian Communist Party, Manea State of Democratic Kampuchea; Nuon Chea, ChairT Manescu, Member of the Executive-Political Committee man of. the Permanent Committee of the People's Con• of the Party Central Committee and Prime Minister, gress of Kampuchea; and Polpot, Prime Minister,of the and other Romanian Party and state leaders Stefan Government of Democratic Kampuchea called. at. -the Voitec, Emil Bobu, Cornel "'Bur'tica, Gheorghe Cioara, Chinese. Embassy, in "Phnom Penh on. the morning of Liha Ciobanu,'Jahos Faz'ekas, Paul Niculescn, Gheorghe September 18 to extend most profound condolences on Oprea, Gheorghe Pana," Ion Patan, Dumitru Popescu-, the passing of Chairman Mao Tsetung. Gheorghe' Radulescu, Leonte Rautu, Iosif Ugl.ar, Ilie Prime Minister Polpot'said, to Chinese Ambassador Verdet, Stefan Andrei, Iosif Banc, Teodor Coman, -,Mi- Sun.Hao: "On behalf of the Kampuchean revolution• hai.Dalea, Ion Dinca, Mihai .Gere, Nicolae Giosan, Vasi- ary . organization, the .Kampuchean people, the Presid• le Patilinet, Ion Ursu, Constantin Dascalescu and Aurel ium of the State of Democratic Kampuchea, the Duma as well as Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Permanent Committee of the People's Congress of George Macovescu. Kampuchea, the Government "of Democratic Kampu• - In the mourning hall-were--wreaths from Nicolae chea and the ' Kampuchean Revolutionary Army; we Ceausescu, General Secretary - of • the Romanian Com• have come to the Embassy of the People's''Republic of munist Party and President of - the Socialist- Republic China with extreme. grief and regret to. extend our of Romania, the Central Committee of the Romanian boundless revolutionary affection and esteem to. the Communist Party, the State Council and the govern• memory of the sublime soul of .Chairman Mao Tsetung, ment. ••..-•••' . - ... the esteemed and beloved great leader of the Chinese Nicolae Ceausescu and "other Romanian Party and people—our fraternal comrades-in-arms, the outstand• government leaders stood in silent tribute -before the ing teacher of the world proletariat and the oppressed portrait of. Chairman Mao.Tsetung and.signed the con- . nations and oppressed people, and the closest and most dolence.vbookv-.-Comrade. G said to Chinese. warmhearted . comrade-in-arms of the Kampuchean Ambassador • Comrade Li Ting-chuan:- Chairman Mao people." •. .. • ...... • ..

20 Peking Review,' No. 40 '.. ; The f .Prime. Minister... added: "Though Chairman Dong, Vo Nguyen Giap, Le Thanh Nghi, Hoang Van Map-Tsetung has. left the .Chinese people and the op- Hoan and Xuan Thuy went to the Chinese Embassy to : pressed people of the., world, his name and. Mao Tsetung . express deep condolences on the 'passing'•away" of Thought will live for ever in the.hearts of the revolu• Chairman. Mao Tsetung." • -' "! tionary people of China, and the oppressed people of. Comrade Le Duan said to Charge, d'Affaires the world." . - . '" ' ad interim Wang Chin:. "Today, on behalf of the Viet '*' Accompanying them at the-condolence call:.were Nam Workers' Party, the- Government of the Socialist Deptvty Prime Ministers Von -Vet and Son Sen, and. Republic of. Viet Nam ani the entire Vietnamese peo• Minister of Social'Affairs long Thirith. .." ~- ple, we extend our deep condolences on the death of the esteemed and beloved Chairman Mao Tsetung. The Earlier, Minister of Information and. Propaganda passing away of Chairman Mao is a colossal loss not - Hu Mm and "Minister of. Social Affairs leng Thirith only to the Chinese' Party, Government and people, had called at" the Chinese'Embassy. to express their but also to our Party, Government and people." condolences._ _ _ " "' ~ Nguyen Duy Trinh, Member of the Political Bureau- Wreaths -were presented by the. Kampuchean rev• of- the Central Committee' of the Viet Nam Workers' olutionary- organization, the Presidium of the'State, of. Party, Vice-Premier of the Government and Minister Democratic Kampuchea, the Permanent Committee of of Foreign Affairs, called at the Chinese Embassy on the People's Congress of Kampuchea and the Govern• September 19 to express profound condolences on the ment- of Democratic Kampuchea. death of Chairman Mao Tsetung. "

Viet Nam Laos A Delegation of the Viet Nam Workers' Party. Central Committee and the National Assembly and ... Souphanouvong, Member'of the Political Bureau of Government of the Socialist Republic of Viet -Nam the Central Committee of the Lao People's' Revolution• called at the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi on the morning ary Party, President of the' Lao Peopled Democratic of September .11 to express condolences on the death, Republic and President of the Supreme People's Coun• of Chairman Mao Tsetung. cil, on September 14 visited the Chinese Embassy in Vientiane to express deep condolences on the passing of The delegation was composed of Vietnamese Party Chairman -Mao Tsetung. \^J) and state leaders. They were Comrade Ton Due Thang, President of/the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam; Com• Other Lao Par'ty'hrid'state'l&d'ers"Noiihak Phoum- rade Le Duan,.First Secretary of the Central Committee savane, Phoumi Vongvichit, Phoun ' Slpaseuth and of the Viet Nam Workers' Party; Comrades Nguyen Khamsouk Keola as well as Chief of General Staff

Luong Bang and Nguyen Huu Tho, Vice-Presidents of Sisavat Keobounphan of the Lao People's Liberation1 the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam; Comrade Truong 'Army also paid condolence calls at the Chinese Em• Chinh, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the bassy. " . . . ^ National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam; Comrade Pham Van Dong, Premier of the Gov• Souvanna Phouma, Advisor to the Lao Government; ernment of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam; and also offered condolences at the Chinese Embassy. : Comrades Pham Hung, Vo Nguyen Giap, Le Thanh The Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolu• Nghi, Hoang Van Hoan, Tran Quoc Hoan, Van Tien tionary Party, the Supreme People's Council and the Dung, Huynh Tan Phat, Le Van Luong, To Huu, Xuan Government of the.Republic jointly presented a wreath Thuy and Chu Van Tan. with the. inscription: "Deeply mourn Comrade Mao The delegation laid before the portrait of Chairman Tsetung,-the great leader of the Chinese people and Mao Tsetung a wreath bearing the words: "To the close comrade-in-arms of the Lao people." memory of Chairman Mao Tsetung, the great leader, of the Chinese people, and esteemed and beloved friend The Lao Party and state leaders paid silent tribute 'of the Vietnamese people." to the late Chairman Mao Tsetung before his portrait: President Souphanouvong wrote in the condolence . The Vietnamese Party and state leaders stood in book: "On behalf of the" People's Revolutionary Party silent- tribute before the portrait of Chairman Mao of Laos, the Government and the entire people of Laos, Tsetung and wrote in the condolence book. I deeply mourn Comrade Mao Tsetung, the esteemed President Ton Due Thang told Wang Chin, Charge and beloved great leader of the Chinese people. The d'Affaires ad interim of the Chinese Embassy in Viet Chinese people have lost their great leader and the Lao Nam: "Shocked to learn of the passing away of Chair- people their closest comrade-in-arms. We express our .' man Mao, the great leader of the Chinese people. We most profound gratitude to Chairman Mao Tsetung who are'deeply grieved and extend our most profound con• had always rendered support and assistance to the Lao dolences'."- • people in their revolutionary struggle." , rt

On the morning of September 102-Vietnamese-Party . The same, day, many representatives of Party, gov- and state leaders Le Duan, Truong Chir.h, -Pham Van ' ernmentjmd.army departments and mass organizations

S.epiX'.mhex. SO, I-37&V 21 and representatives of Chinese residents' also -visited- for ever, among, us. by. his..thought and struggle- and that the Chinese Embassy to express their condolences. - he. will remain a symb.ol^of the resistance and struggle" for all the peoples.". •i. Kaysone Ehomyihane, General .Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and Premier of the Gov• Accompanying the Algerian President on'the call- ^ ernment of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, and were Member of the Council of Revolution and Minister other members of the Lao delegation led by him on a of Foreign Affairs Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Member of the visit to Cuba, called at the Chinese Embassy in Havana Council of Revolution . and Minister of the Interior on the afternoon of September TO to express their pro• Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdel Ghahi, Member of the found sorrow on the death of Chairman Mao Tsetung. Council of Revolution and Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform Mohamed Larbi Tayebi, Member of the Council of Revolution and Commander of the Gen• Pakistan darmerie Ahmed Bencherif and other ministers and high-ranking officials. '•'"•' 1 Fazal Elahi Chaudhry, .President of Pakistan, on' September 10 called at the Chinese Embassy in On the afternoon of September 9, President Boume• Islamabad to extend deep condolences on the death of diene and Foreign Minister Bouteflika and the central Chairman Mao Tsetung. leadership of the Algerian National Liberation Front presented wreaths at the Chinese Embassy oh separate • President Elahi,wrote in the condolence book: "The occasions. greatest debt the world owes to Chairman Mao.is that he awakened the. subjugated nations and gave them a hew confidence in their strength. Mao Tsetung is not Tunisia really dead. As one of the great national builders of all times, he is immortal. His memory will endure Tunisian Prime Minister Hedi Nouira called at the through ages." Chinese Embassy In Tunis on September 10 to express condolences on the death of Chairman Mao Tsetung. •-. . Zulfikar Ali Bhutto,. Prime . Minister of Pakistan, also went 'to the Chinese Embassy on the afternoon of Prime Minister Nouira wrote in the condolence September 10 to extend condolences on the death of , book, "I pay tribute to the late Chairman Mao Tsetung,! Chairman Mao. Tsetung. In the condolence book, he- a great man and the founder of New China." wrote that Chairman Mao Tsetung "always held the Sadok Mokaddem, President of the Tunisian Na• welfare and progress of the people of Pakistan to his tional "Assembly, called at the Chinese Embassy on the heart. My last meeting, with hihl in May this year once morning of September 18 to express deep condolences again provided me with an -opportunity of. experiencing on the passing Of Chairman Mao Tsetung. love and affection which he had for the people of Pakistan. His contribution to the cause of China- . After standing in silent tribute before the -portrait Pakistan friendship wiS always remain enshrined In of Chairman Mao, President Mokaddem wrote in the our memory." He expressed the confidence that the condolence book: "Today, on the occasion of the memo• great Chinese people will win more tremendous victories. rial meeting held by the Chinese people to mourn the great Chairman Mao Tsetung, I, in my own name and Prime. Minister. Bhutto, conveyed to the Chinese 1m. the name of the National Assembly, express deepest . .Ambassador to Pakistan Lu Wei-chao the tremendous sympathy to the Chinese people, Government and leaders grief, of all the Pakistan people on the death of Chair• on the tremendous loss they suffered in the passing of man : "Mad Tsetung. The Ambassador .expressed his their great revolutionary leader, founder of China's gratitude to Prime Minister Bhutto. unification and architect of China's prosperity." On September 9 and 10, high-ranking officers and Among those who paid condolence calls at the Officials", governors and assembly speakers of the-prov• 'Chinese Embassy from September 10 to 18 were Tunisian inces as well as representatives of the people of Minister of External Affairs Habib Ghatti;. other various circles also made condolence calls at the ministers, senior officials and officers, leading members Chinese Embassy. of mass organizations and friendly personages of various circles. Algeria Palestine Houari Boumediene, President of the Council of Revolution and Chairman of the Council of Ministers Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Executive Com• of Algeria, called at the Chinese Embassy in Algiers on mittee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and September 10 to express condolences on the passing Commander in Chief of the Palestine Revolution Forces, away of Chairman Mao Tsetung. called at the Chinese Embassy in Beirut on the evening of September 9 to express his deep condolences on. the President Boumediene wrote- in the • condolence death of Chairman Mao Tsetung. -book: "If we are aware of the dimension "of this loss "to the anti-imperialist fight and the struggle for prog• Abu Jihad, leader of the Palestine.National Libera- ress, we will be convinced .that Mao Tsetung will .live . Hon Movement (Al Fatah), called at the Chinese Embassy

•22 Puking Reviaio, No. 40 in Beirut; the same evening to offer deep condolences Bangladesh on the passing of Chairman Mab Tsetung! Abu Sadat Mohammed Sayem, President and. Chief George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Martial Law. Administrator of Bangladesh, called at liberation of Palestine, Nayef Hawatmeh, leader of the , Chinese Embassy in Dacca on the afternoon of the Democratic Popular Front for the Liberation of September 9 to express condolences on the death oj Palestine, and representatives of the Palestine Libera• Chairman Mao Tsetung. tion Army, the Palestine Federation of Trade Unions and some, other Palestinian mass organizations made Ziaur Rahman, Deputy Chief Martial Law Adminis• condolence calls at .the Chinese Embassy on September trator and Chief- of Army Staff, Moshraff Hossain, 10 separately. Deputy Chief Martial Law Administrator and Chief of Naval Staff, and Abdul Gaffar Mahmood, Deputy Chief Martial Law Administrator and Chief of Air Staff; calied at the Chinese Embassy on the afternoon of Japanese government officials, political party September 9 and on the following day separately to leaders and prominent personages of various circles, express condolences. numbering more than 1,700, went to the Chinese President Sayem and Deputy Chief Martial Law Embassy in Tokyo on September & and 10 to mourn Administrator Ziaur Rahman wrote Inscriptions in the the death of Chairman Mao Tsetung. condolence book in tribute to the late Chairman Mao Among them are: Tsetung,

Prime Minister of the Japanese Government Takeo Many other high-ranking officials and officers of Miki, Minister of Finance Masayoshi Qhira, the then Bangladesh and representatives of various circles also Minister of Foreign Affairs Kiichi Miyazawa, President called at the Chinese Embassy to express condolence's. of 'the House of Councillors Kenzo Kono, Speaker of the House of Representatives Shigesaburo Maeo. Tanzania Chairman of the Japan Socialist Party Tomomi Tanzanian President • Julius Nyerere called at the Narita, Chairman of the Japanese Komei Party Ybshl- Chinese Embassy InDar-es-Salaam on the morning of katsu Takeifi, and Chairman of the Japanese Democratic September 10 to'offer condolences on the,passing away Socialist Party Ikko Kasuga. of Chairman Mao- Tsetung. ' Among -.those paying condolence calls at the em• \. Jumbe, ;Tanzanian" First Vice-President, bassy- in the following days were:.. Zentaro Kosa- Chairman, of the Zanzibar Revolutionary Council and ka, the newly-appointed Japanese Foreign Minister; of the. Afro-Shirazi Party, called at the Chinese Con• Toshio _ Komoto, International Trade and Industry sulate in Zanzibar on September 14 to offer deep con• Minister; Michio Nagai, Education Minister;. Ichitaro dolences on the passing of Chairman Mao Tsetung.. Ide, Chief Cabinet Secretary; and Michita Sakata, Director-General of the Defence Agency/ " ' The First- Vice-President said to Chinese ConsuJ Liu Hsu-chi: "At this moment of grief, we share.with From September 9 to 18, nearly- 10,000 people in• you your sorrow. We should follow the teachings which cluding Japanese government officials and personages Chairxnan Mao made in his lifetime, and consolidate from various circles, filed into the Chinese Embassy in the relations of friendship and co-operation between Tokyo-and the Chinese.Consulate-General m Osaka,city the people of our two countries." to express their-jespec.t for Chairman Mao Tsetung" and their deep'condolences on his passing.. . On the same day, Tanzanian Second'Vice-President and Prime Minister Rashidi Mfaume Kawawa went to the, Chinese Embassy in. Dar-es-Safaam to express pro• Sri. Lanka5'' '" ;'" :\_'"' found , condolences on the passing of Chairman Mao ' Sri Lanka President William GopaUawa.and-.Prime Tsetung... Minister Mrs. Sirima-vo R.D. Bandaranaike.called at the Chinese Embassy in Colombo separately- on. .September Making condolence calls at the Chinese. Embassy- 10 to express condolences on the passing away of .Chair• were also Chief' Justice A. Saidi, Commander of the man Mao. Tsetung. People's Defence Forces of Tanzania A. Twalipo, other high-ranking officials and officers, leading members 'of In the condolence book, President Gopalawa Wrote: mass organizations and prominent figures of various "We.have lost a great leader." Mrs, Bandaranaike wrote, circles. in the book:..''Chairman Mao was a great world leader. His death will'leave a world which will be very dif• Tanzanian Foreign Minister Ibrahim Kaduma sent ficult to'fill. We join with the great" Chinese people in a letter to the Chinese Embassy to mourn the death-of mourning his dea"fhV* " Chairman Mao Tsetung,

Mrs. Bandaranaike told Chinese Ambassador to Sri. On September 10, and a number of days after, Lanka Huang.. Ming-ta that Chairman Mao's death is people from various circles -and leading members "a great loss to developing countries like Sri Lanka. or ' representatives - of African nationalist organiza• It's very sad." - ' " . • tions in 'Tanzania also made ' dondolence calls at the

Ss^tevxkrer- B&; 1974-' 23 Chinese Embassy in Dar-es-Salaam or at the Chi• nese Consulate in Zanzibar to mourn the passing Comrade V.G. Wilcox of. Chairman Mao Tsetung. On September 10, some 400 teachers, students and workers of Dar-es-Salaam V.G. Wilcox, General Secretary, and R.C. Wolf, University, holding high a portrait of Chairman Mao, Secretary, of the Communist Party of New Zealand, went to the Chinese Embassy to offer condolences on called at the Chinese Embassy in Wellington on Sep• his demise. In front of the embassy building, their tember 12 to express, on behalf of the National Com• representative read out a letter of condolence sent by mittee of the N.Z.C.P. and the Party in general, con• the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) Youth dolences on the death of Chairman Mao Tsetung, beloved League Branch, the Students' Union and workers of and great leader of the Chinese people. the university to the Central Committee of the Com• C.R. Howell, President of the New Zealand-China munist Party of China. Five representatives from the Society, also made a condolence call at the Chinese TANU college at Kivukoni made a special trip to the Embassy. Chinese Embassy on September 14 to express con• dolences on the passing of Chairman Mao Tsetung. Comrade E.F. Hill E.F. Hill, Chairman of the Communist Party of Canada Australia (Marxist-Leninist), called at the Chinese Em• bassy in Canberra on September 11 to express his Canadian Governor-General Jules Leger and Prime deepest condolences on the passing of Chairman Mao Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau called at the Chinese Tsetung. Embassy in Ottawa respectively on September 9 and Comrade Hill said to Chinese Ambassador Chou 10 to express deep condolences on the death of Chair• Chiu-yeh~ "All the comrades of the Communist Party of man Mao Tsetung, the great leader of the Chinese Australia (Marxist-Leninist) are extremely. saddened by people. the death of Chairman Mao." During his condolence call on September 10, Prime Vanguard,-" .organ of the Communist Party of- Minister Trudeau recalled his two meetings with Chair• Australia (Marxist-Leninist), published a special issue man Mao during his visits to China. He said that on September 10 to mourn the death of-Chairman Ma® Chairman Mao was a great man who changed backward Tsetung. It carried a long article by. Comrade" Hill, en• and poverty-stricken China -into a modern and strong titled "Chairman Mao's Teachings Inspire Millions to country. • It is the Canadian'-Government's policy to Struggle' for Liberation',"- continue developing friendly relations-" with* China, he emphasized. .------• -~ Marxist-Leninist Parties of France Renaude Lapointe, Speaker, of the Canadian .Senate, The Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of France- Called at the Chinese Embassy on September 15 to and the French .Revolutionary Communist Party. (Marx• express condolences on the passing of Chairman Mao ist-Leninist) sent their delegations respectively to the Tsetung. •'''.' .."'.'.'_"_ • Chinese Embassy in Paris on September 18 to extend deep condolences on the passing of Chairman Mao Earlier, President of the-'Privy" Council' Mitchell Tsetung. Sharp, and a - number of ministers and vice-ministers of the Canadian Government, as well.as members'of The Delegation of the Central Committee of the Parliament had- paid condolence calls at the Chinese Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of France stood in Embassy on September 11-and a number of days after. silent tribute before the portrait of Chairman Mao Tsetung and presented a wreath bearing the words: "To • Representatives of. the Central Committee of the Comrade Mao Tsetung, the greatest Marxist-Leninist.of Canadian Communist League (Marxist-Leninist) also -the contemporary era.". . went to the Chinese Embassy to express condolence on The Delegation of the Central Committee of the the passing of Chairman Mao Tsetung'.' \ ' French Revolutionary Communist Party (Marxist-Lenin• Also calling at the Chinese Embassy to mourn ist) also stood in silent tribute to the memory of Chair• Chairman Mao were: Canadian friendly personages man Mao Tsetung and presented a wreath with the James G. Endicott and Professor Paul T. K. Lin, lead• inscription:. "Paying homage to Comrade Mao- Tsetung, ing members of Canada-China friendship associations the great leader of the proletariat." in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa and .other cities as well as workers, students, women and representatives of Memorial meetings for Chairman Mao Tsetung Chinese residents and compatriots from Ottawa, were held on September 18 and for several days before Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Halifax and other cities by Canada-China friendship associations and overseas of Canada.' •. . • .-. .' Chinese organizations. in Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Over 1,000.people paid condolence calls at the Halifax, Edmonton and other places in the country. Chinese Embassy from September 9 to 18. (Continued on p. 41.)

24- Peking Revievj, No, AO (Continued from p. 24.) He added, "For us, who consider ourselves to be More.than 700 people have made condolence calls true friends of the Chinese people, our task is clear. It is to advance revolution as we mourn this great man, 4^ at the Chinese Consulate-General in Vancouver since September 9. Among them were members of the Pro• we mourn his passing." vincial Legislative Assembly, leading members of Canada-China friendship associations and overseas Mauritania Chinese organizations in Vancouver and in the Province Moktar Ould Daddah, President of Mauritania and of British Columbia. General Secretary of the Mauritanian People's Party, Azad Jammu and Kashmir called at the Chinese Embassy in Nouakchott on the morning of September 10 to express deep condolences » on the death of Chairman Mao Tsetung. Sardar Mohammad Ibrahim Khan, President. of; Azad Jammu and Kashmir, came specially from Also paying condolence calls at the Chinese Embassy Muzaffarabad to call at the Chinese Embassy ;ia were members of the National Political Bureau of the Pakistan on September 11 to express his deep Mauritanian People's Party in Nouakchott, including condolences on the passing away of Chairman "Mao President of the National Assembly Sail Abdoul Aziz Tsetung. ' and Minister of State of External Affairs Hamdi Ould He wrote in the condolence book: "In this moment Mouknass. of grief and sorrow, the Government and people of Kashmir are with the Government and people of China* Botswana The Chinese great leader was a sincere friend of the Kashmir people." - President Seretse Khama of Botswana called atiihe Chinese Embassy in Gaborone on September 10"to ex• press condolences on the passing away of Chairman Mao Tsetung. Datuk Hussein bin Onn, Prime Minister of Malaysia, called at the Chinese Embassy in Kuala Lumpur on Accompanying the President were Minister of September 11 to express condolences on the passing Foreign Affairs Archie Mogwe and other government officials. away of Chairman Mao Tsetung. Malaysian Minister of Foreign Affairs Tunkn Botswana Vice-President and Minister of Finance vW-' Ahmad Bithauddeen, other government ministers' and •and Development Planning Guett Masire called at the Members of Parliament also called at the Chinese Chinese Embassy in Gaborone on September 17 to.ex• press condolences on the passing of Chairman Mao Embassy to express condolences. : Tsetung. - Paying condolence calls at the Chinese Embassy were also public figure and friendly Many Botswana government officials, friendly per• 'personages of various circles. sonages from various circles and a number of African friends-called at the Chinese Embassy on September.. 10 Zambia and- several days after to offer condolences and wrote In the book of condolence. President Kenneth David Kaunda of Zambia called at the Chinese Embassy In Lusaka on September 11 to express condolences. on the death of Chairman Mao The Gambia Tsetung. Dawda Jawara, President of the Gambia, called at Accompanying the Zambian President to the Chinese the Chinese Embassy in Banjul on the morning of Sep- Embassy were Secretary General of the United National 'tember 11 to mourn the passing away of Chairman Mao Independence" Party of Zambia Alexander Grey Zulu, Tsetung.- - • - • • • • - - . Prime Minister Elijah Mudenda, Chief. Justice A.M. Accompanying the President during the condolence Silungwe, Deputy. Speaker of the Zambian National call were Gambian Minister of External Affairs Alieu Assembly B. Sakuhuka, Commander of the Zambia Na• Badara N'Jie and other high-ranking officials. tional Defence Force Full General Chinkuli as well as members of the Central Committee of the United Na• tional Independence Party, government ministers and Mozambique other high-ranking officers and officials. President Samora Machel of Mozambique called, at President Kaunda wrote in the condolence book: the Chinese Embassy in Maputo on the morning of "We mourn the passing of the great man, but the revolu• September 10 to express condolences on the death of tion he started and did so much to promote will con• Chairman Mao Tsetung. tinue for ever." President Samora Machel laid two wreaths in the He told Chinese Ambassador Li Chiang-fen: "We mourning hall in the name of the Central Committee of in Zambia remember Chairman Mao all the time, be• the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) and the cause he was a great thinker." Mozambican Government respectively.

September 30, 1976- 41 .'The President wrote in .the- condolence-book: •From September 9 to 11, ,around, 1,000.. people, "Chairman Mao Tsetung' is not only, the great • leader- among them Mexican government. officials, friendly of the Chinese people but also the great leader of the personages of various circles and representatives of Chi• oppressed people. His thought will continue to en• nese residents in Mexico, called at the Chinese Embassy courage the revolutionary fighters who are fighting for to extend deep condolences oh the decease of Chairman the cause of freedom, independence and -justice." Mao Tsetung. Some Latin American friends in Mexico also made condolence calls at the Chinese Embassy. Also making condolence calls at the Chinese .Em• bassy were Marcelino dos Santos, Vice-President of the FRELIMO and Minister of Development, and Economic Guyana Planning, and other senior officials, Guyanese Prime Minister and Mrs. Forbes Burnham called'at the Chinese Embassy In Georgetown on Sep• Guinea tember'11 to express condolences on the death of Chair• man Mao Tsetung. President Sekou Toure of Guinea and his wife called at the Chinese Embassy in Conakry on the after• As representative of President Arthur Chung of noon of September 9 to mourn the death of Chairman Guyana J.A. Orderson, Secretary of the Office of the Mao Tsetung. President, also offered condolences at the Chinese Em• bassy. President Toure wrote in the condolence book: "Comrade Mao Tsetung was a decisive revolutionary Others who paid condolence visits to the Chinese whom progressive mankind will always remember, be• Embassy the same day were Deputy Prime Minister and cause he incarnated progressive mankind and was General Secretary of the ruling People's National Con• strictly loyal to it till his death." gress Ptolemy Reid; Speaker of the National Assembly Sase Narain; Chief Justice Harold Boilers; Minister of Also calling at the Chinese Embassy were Prime Foreign Affairs and Justice Fred Wills; other govern• Minister Lansana Beavogui and other government minis• ment ministers and high-ranking officials as well as ters.- '-.'.; several hundred people of various walks of life. On the same' afternoon, President Toure read over. Representatives of Chinese residents also made con•

Radio Conakry a statement of the Central Committee ; dolence calls at the Chinese Embassy. of the Democratic Party of Guinea on the passing away Earlier, on the afternoon of September 9, Prime of Chairman Mao Tsetung. The statement said that, Minister Burnham received at his official residence Chi-, flags should be flown at "half-mast allover-the country" nese Ambassador Wang Chan-yuan. The' Prime' Minis• from September .9 to 11 during which local authorities, ter, on behalf- of the Government and people of Guyana, workers, youth and women's organizations, school ad• and in his own name, expressed sympathy with.the. Chi• ministrations and military units and production units' nese people on the passing away of Chairman Mao, committees should meet to-observe a one-minute silence Tsetung. in memory of the great revolutionary Chairman Mao Tsetung. Yygoslovia ' '

Mexico . On behalf of President Josip Broz Tito, and the Pres• idency of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Mexican President and Madame Luis Echeverria Vice-President of the Federal Presidency Vidoje Zar- called at the Chinese Embassy in Mexico City on-Sep-* kovic on September 11 called at the Chinese Embassy tember 11 to express condolences on the death of Chair-' in Belgrade to express deep condolences on the passing man Mao Tsetung. 1 "' away of Chairman Mao Tsetung. - President and Madame. Echeverria laid a. wreath., Vidoje Zarkovic wrote in the condolence book: and stood- in silent tribute before the portrait of Chair• "On behalf of the President of the Socialist Federal Re• man Mao Tsetung. President Echeverria wrote in the public of Yugoslavia and the Federal Presidency as well condolence book: "Under the inspiration of the third, as in my own name, I express. deepest condolences; to world stand of the great leader of China, the relations the Standing Committee of the National People's.Con.-.' between people's China and Mexico have been estab• gress of the People's Republic of China and the friendly lished and rapidly expanded for the benefit of our peo-.. Chinese people on the passing away of Mao Tsetung, pie — the people of the two,countries." the prominent leader and revolutionary and founder of the People's Republic of China, Chairman of the Cen• Others making condolence calls at the Chinese Em• tral Committee of the Communist Party of China." bassy were Carlos Sansores Perez, President of the Per• manent Commission of the Mexican Senate; Mario Re- The same day, Kiro. Gligorov, President of the Yugo• -bolledo, President of the Supreme Court of Justice; Al• slav Federal Assembly; Dzemal.Bijedie, President of. the fonso Garcia Robles, Secretary of Foreign Affairs; other Yugoslav Federal Executive Council; Milos Minic, Vice- cabinet members and senior officials of other- depart• President of the Federal .Executive Council and Federal ments concerned. -• - —..-••-»-.- . Secretary for Foreign Affairs; and. other. officials .'of

42- Peking Review, J$o. 4Q tBfe^iTu^osliaV-* 't&vernment • also 'called at tfie Chinese great sorrow in the name of the Yemeni .people. I am EmMssy'to express condoISfrfces on• the-' passing away- convinced that the Chinese people: will, continue to ad• of Chairman Mao Tsetung- and'wrote tributes in the vance and become more staunch." , . ,

condolence, book.~;j ' " " Abdul-Aziz AbduUGhani, Member of'the-Command- Council and Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic,-' Iceland '/ made a condolence call- at the Chinese Embassy on the- President . Kristjan Eldjarn of Iceland,- and morning of September 10...... Mrs. Eldjarn called at the Chinese Embassy-in Reykjavik He told Charge d'Affaires ad interim of the Chinese'; on September 10 to extend deep condolences oh the Embassy Li Kuang: "The passing--away ,of. the great; death' of Chairman Mao Tsetung, the great leader of leader Chairman Mao Tsetung is a great- loss not-only,, the Chinese people.. Prime Minister Geir Hallgrlmsson to the Chinese people but also to the third world people also .made a condolence call at the Chinese Embassy the; and the people of the whole world." same day. - - - • - The Yemeni Prime Minister wrote in the condolence . Leaders .of. Icelandic. Marxist-Leninist Parties and book: "With great sorrow we learnt of the news of other Icelandic personages called at the Chinese Embassy, the passing away of the great leader Chairman Mao in Reykjavik .to express their, condolences on the passing Tsetung. In the name of. the Command Council, the" ' away of Chairman Mao Tsetung, " ^ - Government and the entire people of the Yemen Arab' Among them were Gunnar Andresson, Chairman of Republic, I. hereby express sincere condolences and the Communist. Party of Iceland (Marxist-Leninist),.and sympathy to the Chinese Government and people on this Ari Trausti Gudmundsson, Chairman of the Communist. great misfortune."- League of Union (Marxist-Leninist) of Iceland. - Making condolence calls at the .Chinese Embassy, Kristjan Gudlaugsson, Chairman, and Jakob Bene- on September 11 were also Member of- the Command diktsson, VIce-Chairman, of the Iceland-China''.Society Council and Deputy Commander-in-Chief and Chief of. for Culture, also made condolence calls at' the Chinese the General Staff of the Armed Forces Ahmed aL Embassy. ' Ghasmi, Deputy Prime Minister for Interior Affairs Abdel Latif Daifallah, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ab- . Condolence calls were also- made by more than- 500 Icelandic friendly personages and people of various, cir• dull'a'Abdu Magid Ashag and other high-ranking offi• cles. ... cials'and officers.- :.'

New Zealand People's - Democratic RepuWk of Yemen- Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand, ..Salem Robaya All, Chairman of the Presidential- F-.H. Corner, Secretary of Foreign Affairs,., and . other Council of the people's Democratic Republic of Yemen, high-ranking officials of the Government called at the and Abdul Fattah Ismail, Secretary-General of the Uni• Chinese Embassy in Wellington on September 10 to ex• fied National Front Political Organization and President press condolences on the passing away of Chairman' Mao of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Tsetung. Council, called at the Chinese Embassy in Aden on the Friendly personages from all circles and.represent• morning .of September 11 -to express, condolences on the

atives of Chinese residents in New Zealand also made passing: away of Chairman Mao:-Tsetung. • condolence calls at the Chinese Embassy. After-standing in silent tribute before the portrait

of Chairman Mao,; Chairman Robaya - and Secretary- Yemen Arab Republic General-Ismail wrote in the condolence book':' "In the ... Ibrahim Mohamed Hamdi, Chairman of the Com• name of the people, the -Unified -National Front Political mand Council and Commander-in-Chief of ' the Organization and the Government-of-Demoeratic Yemen,' Armed Forces of the Yemen Arab Republic.' interrupted we express hereby with grief fo- the Chinese Embassy,- his inspection tour of the country to call at the Chinese the- Chinese comrades- here, the friendly- Chinese people,' Embassy in Sanaa on the afternoon of September 11 the Communist Party of China and the Government of to express condolences on the passing away of Chairman the People's Republic of China our sincere condolences Mao. Tsetung...... on the death of the Chinese people's great leader and Chairman Hamdi stood in silent tribute - before great commander, Comrade Mao Tsetung."

I "once again" expreSs'.-ifcordial ''sympathy -and extremely personages of-Democr-atic Yemen, - ;r

' September30, '1976 ' .'• ;'' 43 Jamaica stere, in the name of the Special Revolutionary General Staff, wrote-in the boot -of condolence: • "It is with' Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley called at deep sorrow that the Congolese Party and- people learnt- the Chinese Embassy in Kingston on September 13 to of the tragic disappearance of Chairman Mao Tsetung, express condolences on the death of Chairman Mao the beloved teacher, founder and. great. leader of the , Tsetung. Communist Party of China,- and one of the greatest revolutionaries and Marxists, of our, epoch.';; . • Jamaica's Deputy Prime' Minister David Coore,

Minister of; External Affairs 'Dudley Thompson, Chief "Chairman Mao Tsetung gave all his life, all his Justice Kenneth George Smith, Chief of Staff of- the energy and all his intelligence to the great cause of the Jamaican Defence Force R.G.E. Green,, and other-senior. world revolution, to the cause of the liberation of the government officials have made condolence calls" at the; oppressed-nations and people and to the cause of so• Chinese Embassy since September 9. . : : • • ."... z cialism,'! ----- r ...

Keith Miles, President of the Jamaica Youth Forces, "The Congolese people, Party and Government ex• for National Liberation, wrote in the condolence book,t tend oh this occasion their deepest condolences and "Chairman Mao. will remain for ever in our hearts,", profound sympathy to the brotherly Chinese people, and when he made a condolence call at the Chinese Embassy. reiterate their strong conviction that the brotherly Chi• nese people will turn this great loss into new strength In a message of condolence addressed to Li Chad,- and continue to carry forward the immortal cause of Chinese Ambassador to Jamaica, the organization wrote f Chairman Mao Tsetung."- "Eternal glory to Chairman "Each one of us is deeply saddened by-the news of the Mao Tsetung!'* death of your great leader Chairman" Mao Tsetung. To expound the monumental achievements of Chairman Prime Minister Goma and President Poaty signed Mao will require massive volumes. Chairman Mao has the book of condolence on behalf of the' Government1 been a great source of inspiration.and guidance to the and the National People's Assembly of the Congo re-" oppressed people of Jamaica in their, struggles for lib• spectively. eration." "Chairman Mao's works will be with us.for Several thousand Brazzaville citizens called- at the ever." Other leading members of the organization also Chinese Embassy group after group to pay silent tribute, called at the Chinese Embassy to offer condolences. ,-. before the portrait of the late Chairman Mao Tsetung, . . President of the Jamaican Association for Friend• in deep mourning for his death. ship with the People's Republic of China,, friendly per-r sonages of various circles and representatives of' Chi• Sierra Leone nese residents in Jamaica were among the mourners, making condolence calls at the Embassy. Sierra Leone's President Siaka Stevens, Vice-Presi• dent and Minister of Development, Economic Planning The Congo and Finance Sorie Koroma, and Acting Prime Minis• ter and Minister of the Interior, Housing and Country Holding portraits of Chairman Mao Tsetung,. more Planning Jaia Kai Kai called separately at the Chinese than 1,000 people silently marched five kilometres to Embassy in Freetown on September 14 to mourn the the Chinese Embassy in Brazzaville on the morning of passing of Chairman Mao Tsetung. September 13 to express deep condolences on the pass• ing of Chairman Mao Tsetung. The marchers included President Stevens wrote in the book of condolence: members of the Special Revolutionary General Staff "Chairman Mao's death is a great loss to the whole (RSGS) of the People's Republic of the Congo, members world." He also told Chinese Ambassador Tsung Ke- of the Central Committee of the Congolese Party of wen: "I join the Government and people of Sierra Labour, government ministers, members of the Bureau Leone and the people of the world to extend heartfelt of the Congolese National People's Assembly and lead• sympathy over the death of Chairman Mao. He is a great ers of mass organizations. man. His death is a great loss not only to the Chinese people but to the whole world, particularly to Sierra * Among the mourners were Tchicaya-Thystere, RSGS Leone. I had the honour of meeting Chairman Mao member in charge of the permanent affairs, organiza• soon after I arrived.in Peking during my visit to China tion and administration of the Party and of mass organ• in 1973 and I can see the great progress you have made izations; Denis Sassou-Nguesso, RSGS member respon• in all fields since then.1' sible for the permanent commission- of the army in charge of defence and security; Luis Sylvain Goma, Vice-President Koroma and Acting Prime Minister RSGS member, Prime' Minister and Head of the Gov• Kai also Wrote in the book of condolence. ernment; and Mouissou Poaty, President of the Na• tional People's Assembly. C.A. Kamara-Taylor, National General Secretary of the Central Committee of the All, People's'Congress ..They stood in silent tribute before the-portrait of .-. Party, Prime Minister, and Minister of the Interior,

the late'-.Qhairman. Mao .Tsetung.. The% .Tchicaya-Thy- • Housing and.:C^u^§Lw^l|r|r^^ called

: -•• \i -. .• 1 .- r .'« ,y.;s ij :: :Peking* Review, No. 40 at' the Chinese Embassy on September 17 to offer con• from various circles and" Chinese residents had made dolences on the passing of Chairman Mao Tsetung. - condolence calls-at the Chinese Embassy.

Prime Minister Kamara-Taylor said to Chinese Am• bassador Tsung Ke-wen: "Chairman Mao's death is" Somalia indeed a great loss not only to the. Chinese people, but Mohamed Siad Barre, President of Somalia, called, also to whole mankind, because we know the part he. at the Chinese Embassy in Mogadishu, on September 12 played in social, political .and other fields in all the to extend profound condolences on the passing of Chair• developing countries. The people of Asia, and Africa man Mao Tsetung. He presented, a wreath. - will never forget him." : President..Siad stood in 'silent tribute before-the Also making condolence calls at the 'Chinese Em• portrait of Chairman Mao. Then he said to Chi• bassy since September 15 were Speaker of the House nese Ambassador Chang Shih-chieh: "Chairman Mao of Representatives " of " Sierra Leone Justice Percy Tsetung will be remembered not only as a pioneer of Davies, and Foreign Minister F.M. Minah. China but also as a great man of the contemporary times. He was a thinker and a statesman." "We are On .September 14 the Sierra Leone Parliament convinced that the sons of the great Chinese people will unanimously adopted a motion made by Sierra Leonean continue to act according to his thinking. The Chinese Vice-President Koroma to pay tribute to the late Chair• people will carry forward the cause left by Chairman man Mao Tsetung. " -'..'. Mao Tsetung." Proposing the motion, Vice-President Koroma said Accompanying the President at the condolence call that the passing "of Chairman Mao Tsetung ] was bound were. Hussein Kulmie Afrah and Ismail Ali Abucar,'- to. evoke grief among the people of the world, par• Vice-Presidents of Somalia, and other high-ranking ticularly among the people of Sierra Leone. This was, officials. he said, because Chairman Mao Tsetung was an advo• cate of the cause of freedom for the advancement of Friendly personages from various circles in Somalia the poor people, an opponent of imperialism and capi• also called at the Chinese Embassy to express their con• talism, defender of :the right of the world's proletariat, dolences. arid respected leader of the over 800 million Chinese- people. ' •" Mali x ;

Those who called at the Chinese Embassy to mourn' " : 'Mous'sa' Traore, Malian Head of State and Govern• the death of Chairman Mao also included Assistant Na• ment, received Chinese Ambassador to Mali Fan Tso- tional Secretary-General of Sierra Leone's All People's kai in Bamako oh the morning of September 17, ex• Congress Party D.F. Shears, other high-ranking gov• pressing deep condolences on the passing of Chairman ernment officials, representatives of the Sierra Leone- Mao Tsetung. " 1'" • China Friendship Society and other mass organizations, He said to the Chinese Ambassador: "I am deeply friendly personages of various circles and representa• grieved to learn the sad news of the passing of Chairman tives "of Chinese residents in that country. Mao Tsetung. The death of Chairman Mao is an immense loss not only to the Chinese people, but also to- the peo• The : ples of the third world, to Mali in particular."- ,,v . He said: "I remember thefruitful talks which were, -- Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos and Ma• full of rich instructions that I had in 1973 in Peking with dame-Imelda R. Marcos called at the Chinese Embassy Chairman Mao, great helmsman of the Chinese people.; in- Manila on September 14 to extend condolences on These talks have left an indelible impression on me, the-passing of Chairman Mao Tsetung. on all the members of the delegation which accompanied Accompanying the President and Madame Marcos me.and on all the Malian people." were their three children, 16 cabinet members and 23 He said: "At this sorrowful moment of the passing high-ranking officers of the armed forces. ef the great helmsman Chairman Mao Tsetung, I re• quest you to convey my deep, condolences and sympathy •,j -President Marcos told Chinese Ambassador Ke to Premier Hua Kuo-feng, the Chinese people, the Chi• Hua: . The passing of Chairman Mao is not only a great nese Government and the Chinese Party, as well as the loss to the people of China, but. also a great loss to the family of the great deceased." peoples of the world. ... Earlier, Amadou Baba Diarra, Acting Head of State Wreaths and flowers were laid in front of the por• and Vice-President of the Military Committee for Na• trait of Chairman Mao Tsetung by the President, Ma-, tional Liberation (M.C.N.L.) of Mali, called at the Chi• dame Marcos and other mourners respectively. nese Embassy in Bamako on the afternoon of Septem• . Foreign Secretary Carlos P. Romulo "made his con• ber 10 to mourn the passing of Chairman Mao Tsetung. dolence call at the Chinese Embassy on September 9. He laid a wreath there in the. name of the M.G.N.L.- .By September 14 over 4,000-people, including lead• and-the Government, and.stood in silent-tribute before ing figure's of - various'Philippine organizations,- people. the portrait of Chairman Mao Tsetung. :

September 30, 1976. 45 . _ .Vice-President Diarra wrote in. the book of condo• Academy of. Sciences;. representatives;, of • aboriginal citi• lence .that Chairman Mao Tsetung did make a. mark on, zens and of Chinese residents, in Australia*. -.- ; . ; the .epoch and the world, and with honourj dignity and wisdom.. So, he remains never to be forgotten because The mourning hall was1-filled with wreaths ..'and he is irreplaceable, irreplaceable because of the universal bouquets presented by sonic, organizations and people" dimension of his mark. in various circles. The wreath: from the Central'Com• mittee of the Communist Party of Australia . (Marxist-. "His thinking, his works and his feats make him. Leninist) bore the inscription: "In deepest grief: Eternal- immortal. - glory for the great leader and teacher of the interna• tional proletariat and working people. His work. wiU' "Today all peoples of the world are in immense live for ever." Comrade E.F. HilL Chairman of the grief. Party, presented a wreath bearing the inscription: "In. "In the name of the people, the Military Committee deepest reverence and respect for the great proletarian for National Liberation, the Government of Mali and revolutionary of our time." President Moussa Traore, we extend here our. deep con• dolences to the Chinese people, the Communist Party Since September 9, more-than 700 people have called of China and the family of the great deceased." at the Chinese Embassy to extend condolences. .. Many workers, ..students and. other, people .travelled long • Paying condolence calls at-the Chinese Embassy distances from various parts of the country, to call at the. were also other members of the M.C.N.L., government Chinese Embassy to mourn. Chairman Mao.with deep ministers and leading members of Malian mass organi• grief. Overcome with sorrow, they burstinto tears while zations. standing in silent tribute before, the portrait of Chairman. Mao, . , ...... On September 9, a memorial meeting mourning the death of Chairman Mao Tsetung was organized by rep• resentatives of the National Union of the Workers of U.S.A. - .;:;.":.,;';:.;.;..'. ::; 1 Mali; the Malian National Union of Women, the National Union of the Students of Mali and other organizations.- • U.S.- .government ..officials: anfl: personages from various-circles-have-called at.the Liaison .Office of the: -People's Republic of China in the United States, of Australia America -since September-i-9 to express condolences on • • Australian Prime'.Minister. Malcohji.'Frase.r- called- the passing of Chairman Mao .Tsetung,-the great leader at.the Chinese Embassy in Canberra on.;September 10 and teacher of the Chinese people...... to. express his jleep.eon.4olgnces;on. the death 'of Chair• Representing U.S. President Gerald R.' Ford, Brent man. Mao Tsetung. Scowcroft,; Assistant to the' President for National ", .Prime'Minister. Fxaser-asked 'Chinese: Ambassador- Security Affairs, went to the Chinese Liaison Office to Chou. Chiu-yeh. to:convey!his.deep condolences .extended express condolences. on behalf of the. Australian^ Government, and people. . . Others paying condolence calls at the Chinese Liai• D. Smith, Official Secretary, to Governor-General son Office were Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger Sir. John Kerr, also tendered "condolences' at the Chinese and Under Secretary of State Philip C. Habib;-Senate. Embassy on behalf of the Governor-General. Democratic Party Leader Mike Mansfield and Senate Republican Party Leader Hugh Scott;: former Secretary Also paying condolence, calls at the. Embassy the of State William F. Rogers; former Chief.of the Liaison same .day were, former Australian Prime Minister and Office of the United States of America in the Peo• leader of the Australian. Labour Party Gough Whitlam and deputy leader of -the Party Thomas Uren. ple's Republic of China George H. Bush, and former Chairman of the 'Senate Foreign Relations Committee On September 11 and for days afterwards, more J.W. Fulbright; Chairman of the Board of Directors of mourners, called at the Chinese Embassy. They included the National Committee on U.S.-Chin.a Relations. Charles Deputy Prime Minister, and concurrently. Minister for W. Yost; President of the National Council.for U.S.• National Resources and Overseas Trade. John Douglas China Trade OK Phillips; representatives from the U.S. Anthony, Minister for Foreign Affairs Andrew Sharp. Committee on Scholarly Communications With the Pec-, Peacock and'other government ministers and-officials; pie's Republic of China and the National U.S.-China Acting Speaker of the House of Representatives Phillip People's Friendship Association; and American, scholars E. Lucock, Vice-President of the Senate Thomas Charles of Chinese origin including Chen. Plen Li, Jen . Chih- Drake-Broekman, and senators and members of the kung, and Chang Chieh-chien,- ...... House of Representatives. Also paying condolence calls at the Chinese Embassy were Geoffrey Stillwell, Na• Many friendly American personages of various- cir• tional President of the Australia-China Society; Neville cles, Americans of Chinese origin, Taiwan compatriots Maxwell, noted British writer; Professor Anthony Low, and other overseas Chinese residing in the' United Deputy. Chancellor of the Australian National Univer• States also made condolence calls. Many of them sity; Sir Frederick,. ;fflcfeRresidenfc .of, the.,.Australian. presented wreaths.

46 Peking Review,- No., 40 Major-Gen eral "Thomas Ndabemeye, Chief of 'General In • Geneva v:--. --^V.-;.^-- - - • Staff of the Burundi Armed Forces; and Cajetah Nikb- •Vittorio Winspear.e Guicciardl, Under-Secretary-. ' bamye, Secretary-General of the Presidential Office-. General -of the United-Nations-.and.- Director-General of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation Mel-' the United Nations Office in Geneva, called at the Per• chior Bwakira paid a condolence call at the Chinese Em• manent .Mission of the People's Republic of China to bassy in Bujumbura on September 10. the United Nations .Office in Geneva on September 13 to. express, condolences on the passing of Chairman Mao Also paying condolence calls at the Chinese Em• Tsetung. bassy that day were senior Burundi officials and offi• cers, representatives of mass organizations and friendly - ~Also paying-condolence calls at the Chinese Mission personages. were: Paul Coidan, Assistant .Director-General of the U.N.. Office in Geneva, Mohamed Mill, Secretary- General of the International Telecommunication Union, Madagascar M.G. Candau,- Honorary Director-General of the World. Malagasy President Didier Ratsiraka received at the. Health Organization, and representatives of other inter• State Palace on the afternoon of September 10 Chinese national, organizations in Geneva. • Ambassador Tien Chih-tung to express sincere condo• Lois Snow-_and Sian Snow, wife and daughter of lences on the ^passing away of Chairman Mao Tsetung.' the late .well-known American author and friend of the .President Ratsiraka .said that he had learnt with Chinese people Edgar Snow, went to the.Chinese Mis• sorrow of the death of" Chairman Mao"Tsetung. He said: sion on September 13 to deeply mourn the passing of "The Communist Party of China has lost its great helms• Chairman - Mao, Mrs. Snow wrote in the" condolence man. The. Chinese people have lost their esteemed and' book: "We share the sorrow of the Chinese people at beloved great leader. The Malagasy people have lost' the loss of-their beloved teacher and great leader, Chair• a great friend, and the Malagasy revolution a great man Mao Tsetung." ally. As to the world revolution, it has lost a great Nusrat Bhutto, wife of Pakistan Prime Minister teacher." Indeed; he' belongs to humanity. Though he is; Bhutto, who was.in Switzerland, called at the Chinese dead, his activities have left and will for ever leave an- Mission on September-11 to. extend condolences. .... - indeiible- impression on our globe. His works 'and thought will be immortaL" - '-•"'" Jean Babel, President of the State Council of-.the. Canton of Geneva, Jules Ducret, President Of the Great He said: . "I would ask the Ambassador to convey';, Council of the Canton of Geneva, and friendly person-, to the Chinese; people sincere condolences of the peo• ages of various circles" made condolence calls at the ple," the Supreme Council "of Revolution and the Gov• Chinese Mission. ernment of Madagascar on this great loss they have just' Others who paid condolence calls at the Mission suffered. To share your sorrow, we have ordered that included the well-known authoress Han Suyin. She the national flag be flown at half-mast in mourning stood in silent tribute before the portrait of Chairman for three days from September 10 to 12." Mao. and presented a bouquet. Offering condolences While inspecting Mahitsy Hospital on September together with her was Mr. Vincent Ruthnasumy. " 15, President- Ratsiraka once again expressed to the Chinese medical personnel working there his condo• Burundi lences on the passing of Chairman Mao Tsetung, the great leader of the Chinese people. He said: "The. • Michel Micombero, General Secretary of the Party death of -Chairman Mao Tsetung is a great loss not only

of-Unity and- National-Progress, President and Head of to the Chinese people,1 but also to. the Malagasy people."-. Government of-Burundi, received-Chinese Ambassador He told the. Chinese medical, personnel that the Chinese-' to--Burundi Chen Feng at the Presidential Palace-in doctors had brought.'to"'the Malagasy people:riot only Bujumbura on September 13 and expressed the deepest medical care and rriedlcine "but also the spirit of "self- condolences on the death of Chairman Mao Tsetung. reliance" "as taught by Chairman Mao. • President Micombero said to the Chinese Ambas• On September 10, Justin Rakotoniaina, Member of sador.: "The passing of Chairman Mao causes profound the Supreme Council of Revolution (C.SJl.) and Prime grief not only to the Chinese people .but also to all the Minister of Madagascar,. went to the . Chinese Em• oppressed peoples of the world to whom he made great bassy to . mourn the death ,of Chairman Mao contributions. Chairman Mao . has passed away, but Tsetung. He presented" two wreaths in the name of his brilliant thought" will remain eternal for the op• President Ratsiraka and all the C.S.R. members; in his, pressed peoples of the whole world. May this beacon own name and the ministers of the Government. light illuminate for ever the path-of the revolutionary Calling at the Chinese Embassy to mourn the death peoples- of the whole world in their struggle for libera• of Chairman Mao Tsetung were also members of the tion, from all exploitation." - ' •' ' C.S.R.: Jaona Mampila, Arsene Ratsifehera, Salomon . Present at the reception were Bernard Bizindavyi, Rahatoka, Etienne Mora, Tsihozony Maharanga, Desire Executive Secretary of the Party of Unity-and National Rakotoarijaona, Gilbert Sambson, Ferdinand Jaotombo,-' Progress and Minister of National Guidance; Melchior Jean de Dieu Randriantanana, Max Marson and Samuel Bwakira, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation^ Ralaidovy,-and-all-the-government ministers. • .•":>•

September 30, 1976- " 4% •'- Prime Minister Rakotoniaina said to Chinese Am• on the death of Chairman Mao Tsetung at the Chinese bassador to Madagascar Tien Chih-tung: "In the name- Embassy in N'Djamena on the afternoon of September of the Malagasy Government and people, I convey to you 10. qur deepest condolences and sincerest sympathy on the President Malloum read a message of condolence death of Chairman Mao Tsetung. It is a great loss not and signed the book of condolence. only to the great Chinese people but also to the pro• He praised Chairman Mao as "an example of tena• gressive countries and the people of the whole world." city, courage and "self-sacrifice." He said that Chair• On the same day, Gilles Andriamahazo, President man Mao "devoted all his life to the cause of his people of the Military Development Committee of Madagascar^' and all the oppressed." called at the Chinese Embassy to mourn the death of President Malloum added: "Thanks to him and the Chairman Mao Tsetung. example he set for his country, the world and partic• Calling at the Chinese Embassy to express con• ularly the oppressed have finally understood that'de• dolences were also noted personalities and friendly peo• velopment is not a privilege only of the industrialized ple of all walks of life, youth, students and overseas countries." Chinese in Madagascar. ... Accompanying him during the condolence call were Chadian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation The Central African Republic Kamougue Wadal Abdelkader and other high officials. Jean-Bedel Bokassa, President of the Central Afri• can Republic now visiting Zaire, received Chinese Am• Rwanda bassador to Zaire Kung Ta-fei in Kinshasa on Septem• Rwandan President Habyalimana Juvenal called at ber 9. President Bokassa asked the Chinese Ambassa• the Chinese. Embassy in -Kigali on the morning of Sep• dor to convey to the Chinese Government and people tember 10 to extend deep condolences on the death of the saddest condolences of the Central African Govern• Chairman Mao Tsetung. ment and people on the death of Chairman Mao Tsetung. . He wrote in the condolence book: "Not only the People's Republic of China has lost a great leader and The President praised Chairman Mao Tsetuhg's founder but. the whole world has lost a prominent great contribution to the world. Chairman Mad Tsetung figure." . . was a great man of numanity.. His death.has throwrr : Making condolence calls at the Embassy on the same the whole world into mourning, the President said. morning were Minister of Foreign Affairs and Co• Present on the occasion were Central' African 'Pre• operation Aloys Nsekalije, other government.ministers, mier Ange Pattasse, Minister of State Bangui Tandet senior officials, eminent personalities and people of all- and Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Franck. circles. I-";-";', r. . . Ghana Niger ..-.•>. . :• ' Ignatius Kutu Acheampong,. Head of State and Lieutenant-Colonel Seyni Kountche, President of Chairman of the Supreme Military Council of Ghana,- the Supreme' Military Council and Head of State of1 called at the Chinese Embassy, in Accra on September" Niger, went to the Chinese Embassy in Niamey on Sep• 10 to offer condolences on the passing of Chairman Mao tember. .10 to express condolences on the passing of . Tsetung. - - - • Chairman Mao Tsetung. Expressing his deep' sorrow to Chinese Ambassador • Also making condolence calls at,..the Chinese Em-, Yang Ke-ming at the death of Chairman Mao Tsetung, • bassy were: Minister of Foreign Affairs and Co-opera• Chairman Acheampong- said that with the death of tion Moumouni Djermakoye Adamou, other govern• Chairman Mao Tsetung, China and indeed the world and ment ministers and high-ranking officials. all peace-loving peoples have lost a great leader. Even though Chairman Mao is dead^ his thought and ideas will continue to inspire others to strive for greater eco-. Egypt nomic progress and fight against world oppressors; ,he The representative of Egyptian President Sadat and added. ' high-ranking officials, of the Egyptian Government Accompanying Chairman Acheampong were Gha• called at the Chinese Embassy in Cairo ron September naian Commissioner for Foreign Affairs R.J. Felli and 11 and 12 to express condolences oh the passing of other high-ranking officials. Also paying condolence Chairman Mao Tsetung. calls at the Chinese Embassy were representatives of On behalf of President Sadat, Acting Grand mass organizations and friendly personages of various Chamberlain of the Presidency Ess el-Din Moukhtar circles. . . - • called at the Chinese Embassy to extend condolences. Making condolence calls at the Chinese. Embassy were Chad also Deputy Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs •; Felix Malloum,'President of the Supreme .Military Ismail Fahmy, Deputy Premier and Minister of War Council and-Head of'State of Chad, offered condolences and War Production General Mahammed Abdul Ghany,

48.. . •'••: • •' ' " Peking Review, No. 40 el fiammass^y, General Supervisor of ..the. Special Na• of the union which included Assistant General- Secre• tional Council- Abdel Kader_Hatem, other ministers and tary Omar El-Hag Musa and'the'secretaries of various senior officials as well as friends from all walks of life. committees of the union. ' ' ,"• The mourners stood, in, .silent tribute before the por• Also calling at the Chinese- Embassy were a delega• trait of the late Chairman Mao. With tears in their tion from the Ministry of. Culture and Information led eyes, many of, them. expressed to Chinese diplomatic by Minister Bona Malwal, Minister of Finance, Plan-; officials their deep condolences. They maintained that ning and National Economy Mamoun Beheiry, Minister the passing'of Chairman Mao is not only a great loss" of Public Service and Administrative Reform Abdel to the Chinese people but also a great loss to the peoples'" Rahman Abdulla, Minister of Construction and Public of the world. Works Mustafa Osman Hassan, Minister of Transport The Representative of the' Egyp'tian President, and Communications Dr. Bashir' Abbadi, Minister of Moukhtar, wrote in the.condolence book:! "The Pres• Education Dafalia El Hag Yousif, a number of ministers ident of the.. Arab Republic of Egypt Anwar Sadat has of state and'other high-ranking government officials, instructed me to be his deputy to express deep con• senior officers of the Sudanese People's Armed Forces dolences" to the great Chinese people and the friendly and friendly personages from all walks of life. Chinese Government on the death of Chairman Mao In Juba, Regional Minister of Affairs of the Presi• Tsetung, the leader of the march of the People's Re• dency and the High Executive Council for the Southern. public of China, the architect of its revolution and the' Region Natale Olwak went to the residence of the pioneer of its struggle." Chinese medical team on the evening, of September 9 Deputy Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs to ..express condolences on the passing of Chairman Mao , Fahmy wrote;. "Deepest grief and sorrow for the loss Tsetung on behalf of Sudanese Vice-President and President of the High Executive Council for the of.the great leader and teacher of humanity." - Southern Region Abel Alier. On the same evening Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Vice-President Alier said in a statement, that the world Yasser Arafat and Palestinian mass organizations also - has lost a great. thinker of the 2 0 th. century In the sent wreaths-to the Chinese Embassy. passing of Chairman Mao Tsetung. "To our friends, members-of the Chinese medical team in the Southern The Sudan Region, the government and people in the region ex• Sudanese Vice-President and Premier Rashid El press their deep condolences on.ine death of the great- Tahir B-akr, called at the Chinese Embassy in Khar• leader," the statement added. ",'.'. toum on the evening of September 10 to extend his ,. Also.calling at the residence, of the Chinese medical deep condolences on the passing away of Chairman Mao. team were regional ministers, the Commissioner of Tsetung. ... . East Equatoria Province and friends of various circles. Mansour Khalid, Assistant to the President of the In Wad Medani, Abu El Gasim Hashim, Political Republic for Co-operation and Foreign Affairs and Su• Bureau Member of the Sudanese Socialist Union and pervisor of the Administrative Machinery of the Pres• Commissioner of Gezira Province, called at the residence idency, also made a condolence call at the Chinese Em• of the Chnese technical team working on the Wad Meda- bassy the 'same evening. He said to Chinese Charge ni-Gadaref Road and the Medani-Hantoub Blue Nile d:Affaires ad interim Hsu Chun: "The passing, away, Bridge project on September 14 to extend condolences. of the great leader Chairman Mao is a huge loss for the He said: "It is a pride for the Chinese people to have people in the whole world. His brilliant thought will a great -thinker and revolutionary like Chairman Mao shine over the whole world for ever. His great image' Tsetung. He led the Chinese people in building China will live in the'hearts of the entire Chinese people for into a strong and powerful country in a short period ever." of time. Internationally he played a historical role in the formation of the third world to confront the two Making condolence calls were also Izzel Din Hamid,: Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs; Francis Deng, superpowers."; _ • Minister of State, for Foreign Affairs; new Sudanese More than 2,100 people-from all walks of life in Ambassador to China Mubarak Osman Rahma who will the Sudan have called at the Chinese Embassy and soon leave for his post as well as other officials and residences of the Chinese technical teams and Chinese friendly. personages. medical teams to express condolences on the passing - . Later, Acting Speaker of the Sudanese People's of Chairman Mao Tsetung. Assembly Arop Yor called, at the Chinese- Embassy on September 11, at the head of an assembly delegation. He said: "The, death of Chairman Mao is a great loss to China: But the Chinese revolution will continue Thai Prime Minister and Deputy Prime because it represents the aspiration and aim of the Ministers Pramarn Adireksarn and Dawee Chullasapya people of the whole world."- ' called at the Chinese Embassy in on Septem• General Secretary of the Sudanese Socialist Union ber 13 to pay tribute to the late Chairman Mao Tsetung; Abu Gasim _ Mohamed Ibrahim went to the Chinese Deputy-Prime Minister. Dawee. told. Chinese Am- -Embassy'on ..September 12 at the head of a'.delegation •bas'sador Chai Tse-min: J'The people.of the world have-

"i 'g$pt£mber}-30,; 1976 :. ;; •'- « f. ;. P- '-' lost a great man in the death of Chairman Mao Tsetung, Memorial Committee^.and.other public figures of The entire Thai, people are grieved, over the death of various circles...... Chairman Maq. -The Thai people, are . convinced - that •Thai-Chinese friendship- .will be strengthened con• FiJ> - • . ". "' stantly." Robert Monro-, President of the- Fijian Senate;. David' - Former Thai Prime Minister' Kukrit Pramoj also Toganivalu, Minister of Labour;-;Edward Beddoes,-Min• called at the Chinese Embassy on September 13 to offer ister of Industry,- Commerce and Go-operatives; and. condolences on the death of Chairman Mao Tsetung. Len Usher, Mayor of Suva, have called, at the Chinese Paying condolence calls at. the Chinese Embassy Embassy .in Suva to express condolences on the death on September 10 were Foreign Minister Bhichai Eat-, of Chairman-Mao Tsetung. • ' • takul, Minister- of Industry Chatichai Ohoonhayan. and "'-•'• Galling at the Chinese Embassy were also Fijian Minister of Justice Praslt Kanchanawat. Members- of Parliament, government officials, person• ' Since September • 10, • there have "been more than ages of various, circles, and representatives ef overseas: 3,000 mourners calling at the Chinese Embassy-includ• Chinese.. ing government officials, Members of - Parliament, The Chinese Embassy has also received "many friendly personages, social figures, workers, students, wreaths, and cables - and letters expressing -profound teachers, writers, journalists, leading- members of some condolences on the- passing of Chairman-Mao Tsetung. International organizations in Bangkok and Chinese residents in Thailand. . - Brazil Burma Brazilian government officials have called at the Chinese Embassy in Brasilia to express condolences on tl Sein Win, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic, the. passing, of Chairman Mao Tsetung. of the Union of Burma, and U - Tbaung Kyi, Joint Among those paying condolence calls were Antonio General Secretary of- the Burma Socialist .Programme- Scarabotolo, Director of Protocol, and Itaio Zappa, Party, called at the Chinese - Embassy in Rangoon on Director of the Department of Africa, Asia and Oceania, September 11 to express condolences on the death of of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Director Searabo- Chairman Mao Tsetung. tplo extended to Chinese Ambassador Chang Teh-churi From September 10 to 13, nearly 2,000 people fn? the. deep- condolences of the Brazilian Government on eluding foreign ministry officials-, public figures and the passing of Chairman Mao Tsetung. representatives of Chinese residents hi Burma called Also paying condolence calls at the Chinese at the Chinese. Embassy to express condolences. bassy were representatives of Chinese residents in Bra- . silia, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Afghanistan

Leaders of the Republic of Afghanistan Mohammad Ethiopia Maim, First- Deputy Prime- Minister Mohammad- Hassan Chairman. Teferi B a rite of the Ethiopian Provisional Sfaarq, and Chief, of General Staff -Gh.ulam Haider Military .-Administrative Council, First. yice-Ghairman Rasouli called at the Chinese Embassy in Kabul on Mengistu Haile Mariam of the Council- and Second- Vlce> September 11 to express condolences on .the passing of Chairman. Atnafu. Abatl of the Council, called at the Chairman Mao Tsetung. Mohammad Maim wrote in the Chinese Embassy in Addis. Ababa on the evening, of- Condolence book..' ...... September: 9 to-, express their .deep condolences on the

Also- making - condolence calls- at 'the Chinese Em• passing: away, of.Chairman Mas- Tsetung. . .-.';.. _: .,- bassy were ministers, other high-ranking government Accompanying them was Minister of- Foreign

officials and1 -military -officers, prominent personages as Affairs Kifle Woda'jo..' .' .... : .' well as the President of the Afghanistan-China Friends ' "" Chairman" Teferi Bante Said to - Chinese Ambassador- ship Assocsafion and .students.- • Yang Shou-Chengr "We come.to share the great loss of the passing away of Chairman Maov ;-ItTcs.'-a- great -loss not only to the people of China but to the revolutionary people of the whole world. The revolutionary people Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, called of the world! have lost a great leader, a "great Marxist- at the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi on September 11 Leninist5* - "-His great work" and example will always to extend condolences on the passing of Chairman Mao give encouragement to the people- engaged in. revolu• Tsetung. tion," he said. ... -. - Indian Minister of External Affairs Y.B. Chavan made a condolence call the. same day...... The next day Chairman Teferi Bante" presented a wreath to the Chinese Embassy to mourn the death of '- - Among other mourners calling at the Chinese Em• Chairman Mao Tsetung. ' " bassy were Pandit SundarlaL President of- the -India-China- Friendship•.'. Association;; Daniel Latifi, • Chairman of, the -Economic Committee of the Coun• General Secretary of -.-..the. ^All-India . D.r, ..D.S. Kotnis cil Mogesj Wqlde Michael, Commander of the Army. Ba-^

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Tefera and government ministers also called at the Em• passing of Chairman Mao. : This is-a- loss- not only to bassy to express their condolences. - - - the Chinese people, bat also to-all mankind." He wished, ' "The world has lost a courageous warrior, a strong that the friendly relations between France and China' Communist and a great socialist- thinker,"'- and "he is will continue to develop. . . , the great Chairman Mao Tsetung of the People's 'Repub• French Prime Minister Raymond Barre expressed lic of China/' said First Vice-Chairman Mengistu Haile condolences at the Chinese Embassy on September 18. Mariana of the Ethiopian Provisional Military Adminis• He told Chinese-Ambassador Tseng Tao that "Chairman- trative Goiineil, at a meeting of more than 1^000-repre-- Mao Tsetung - will -go down in history as one of the sentatives of the Farmers' Associations on September 10. greatest figures of this century." He noted that he At Mengistu's suggestion the representatives ob• "will in particular-take care of the friendly relations served a one-minute silence in memory -of the late (between France and China) that General de Gaulle Chairman Mao. Tsetung,. and Chairman Mao Tsetung established so that these relations may be developed and consolidated." Senegal Making condolence calls at flic Chinese Embassy On behalf of President Leopold Sedar Senghor, were: also - Michel PomatomsM, French Minister of Senegalese Prime Minister Abaou Dlouf called at the State and- Minister of the Interior; Jean Lecanuet, Chinese Embassy In Dakar on the morning-of Sept-ember Minister of State and Minister for Planning and Ter• 11 to extend profound condolences on.. She death of ritorial Management; and many either ministers as well Chairman Mao Tsetung. as a number .of representatives of the French Govern• Prime Minister Dlouf wrote in the condolence book: ment, the National Assembly, -the Senate and the armed "The Senegalese people learnt with very great grief of forces. the sad news of the passing away -of Chairman Mao Also paying condolence calls at the Chinese Em• Tsetung, the giant of history. In the name of the head bassy, were former Prime Minister Maurice Couve de. of state, I express with respect the great sorrow of the Murvffle,- and ^former Ministers Maurice Schumann, whole Senegal "which wants to assure the great friendly Andre Bettenraurt, Alain P.eyrefitt.e and Jean de Lip- Chinese people once again of its very fraternal sympa• kowski. '' ' thy. The passing away of Chairman Mao is a grievous . Calling at the Chinese Embassy to express pro• loss to the whole mankind because the genius M'his found condolences were also friends from the France- thinking, the flow of his words and the efficiency of his China Friendship Society -hicludihg Honorary Chairman action'-have not only guaranteed the spectacular prog• Maurice Baumont, Executive Chairman Charles B.et- ress of China, but also left a profound mark on our telheim, ' Executive Viee-Chairman " Regis' Bergeron, epoch. He will continue to inspire our gigantic struggle Secretary-General Mrs. Helene Marchisio and Chairman for truth .and justice." of the Presidium Jacques Jurquet; well-known Dutch Also paying condolence calls at the Chinese Em• film director Joris Ivens; French film worker Maree- bassy were Assane Seek,- Minister of State for Foreign line Loridan; famous authoress Han Suyin; and French Affairs,.and others.. friends from, various walks of life. . • The representative of the South West Africa Peo• Representatives of the Communist Party of Por• ple's .Organization,. In Dakar has also called: .at the tugal (Marxist-Leninist) and. a number of Portugese Chinese ...Embassy to.express condolences. . .. friends also called at "the Chinese Embassy in Paris to express deep condolences. . . . 'France . -: .-. .-.Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, Director-General of the ' French President Valery Giseard d'Estaing, Prime Secretariat of the .United Nations Educational, Scien• Minister Raymond Barre and many other high-ranking tific and Cultural .Organization (UNESCO), and per• government officials as well-.as more than 2,000 per• manent representatives of many countries to UNESCO sonages of various circles have called at the Chinese also made condolence calls .at the Chinese Embassy to Embassy, in Paris since September 10 to offer con- pay tribute to Chairman Mao Tsetung. • dp|gnces..-on the passing of. Chairman Mao. Tsetung. Many representatives of Chinese residents. in "-• -President Valery ..Giscard d'Estaing,. accompanied France went to the Chinese Embassy to express deep by French Minister, of Foreign Affairs Louis de Gui- condolences- on the death - of the -great leader and ringaud; called- at the Chinese Embassy. on September teacher Chairman "Mao Tsetung.

17 to;.express condolences. . . In the condolence book he wrote: "In memory of Gobon Chairman Mao Tsetung who had restored dignity to -China -and restored it to its place. With -General de Jean-Stanislas • Migolet,-Acting Head of State of Gaulle, he had opened the -way -of friendship and -un• Gabon and Deputy: Prime Minister. Responsible for • derstanding between China .and France." Relations With" the'Two Assemblies, called at the Chinese He' said to Tseng Tab;' Chinese Ambassador to Embassy in • Libreville on September 10 to mourn the France: "The French people are -aware of the 'tremen• death' of- Chairman MaoTseteng.-• - ••

September 30, W76 /, Deputy Prime Minister Migolet. said to Chinese Thle Principal Commissioner wrote in the con• Ambassador Liu Ying-hsien: "Chairman Mao Tsetung dolence book: "The great Mao 'Tsetung has passed away, is a celebrated and great man of history." "In the name but his example as _ an indomitable fighter and his of the government, the Gabonese Democratic Party and teachings guiding people to fight against exploitation, the Gabonese people, I extend on this sorrowful oc• inequality and poverty will be engraved- on the memo• casion deepest condolences to the Chinese Government, ries of all the revolutionaries.and people of the world." the Chinese people and their great Party." Friendly personages of various circles in this coun• Paying condolence calls at the Chinese Embassy try and leading members of some mass organizations were also President of the Gabonese National Assembly also paid condolence calls at the Chinese Embassy. Paul Indjendjet-Gondjout, Commander-in-Chief of the Gabonese Armed Forces General Ba-Oumar and-other> Syria high-ranking officials. As representative of Hafez Assad, President of the Syrian Arab Republic and General Secretary of the Morocco : Arab Baath Socialist Party of Syria, Abdallah Ahmer, Moroccan Prime Minister Ahmed Osman called at Assistant General Secretary of the Arab Baath Social• the Chinese Embassy in Rabat on September 11 to ex-' ist Party of -Syria, - called at the Chinese Embassy in press condolences on the passing away of Chairman Damascus on. the morning of September 12 to mourn Mao Tsetung. the passing of Chairman Mao Tsetung. He wrote in the condolence book: "I learnt with He told Chinese Ambassador Tsao Ke-ehiang that deep grief and sorrow of the news of the passing away on behalf of Hafez Assad, President of the Syrian Arab- of the leader Mao Tsetung. At this mournful moment, Republic and General Secretary of the Arab Baath I express, on behalf of the Government of His Majesty Socialist Party of Syria, and in the name of the national- King Hassan II, sincere condolences and deep sympathy . leadership of the Baath Party, he "expresses deepest to the Chinese Government and the friendly Chinese condolences to the Communist Party of China, the. people and wish China greater prosperity and continued Chinese people and the Chinese Government on the advance along the course charted'-by - her great com• passing of Comrade Mao Tsetung, the great leader of. mander." ..J ...... the Chinese people and the great friend of the Arab

- Moroccan Minister" of" State ''-for.- 'Foreign-"Affairs people;'3;. - -' Moulay Ahmed Larakl-ancL. other-high-ranking officials . "The people of China and the world over have lost of the Foreign Ministry" made - condolence calls at the" a great fighter and an outstanding standard-bearer of Chinese 'Embassy on September. 10. our contemporary life. The immortal exploits of- this •-'• • Making condolence calls were also friendly per• leader will shine for ever and illuminate the road of sonages of all circles. advance of the Chinese people and all the people struggling for freedom and progress," he said. Guinea-Bissau He added, "The friendship between Syria and China which was established and consolidated while Chairman Luis Cabral, President of the Council of State of Mao Tsetung was alive will continue to be consolidated the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, called at the Chinese and strengthened." Embassy in Bissau on the afternoon of September 13 to pay deep condolences' on the passing of Chairman Making condolence calls together with Abdallah Mao Tsetung. Ahmer were Baqer Yaseen and other members of the national leadership of the Baath Party. • President Luis Cabral received Chinese Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau Chia Huaf-chi in-Ba'fata City of Bafata Also calling at the Chinese Embassyiater to express- Province on September 12, expressing deep condolences condolences were Premier Abdel Rahman Khleifawl, on the passing of Chairman Mao Tsetung. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Abdul Karim Adi, Assistant General Secretary of the regional leadership of Francisco Mendes, Secretary of the. Permanent Sec• the Syrian Arab Baath Socialist Party Mohammed Jabir retariat of the African Party for Independence in Guinea and Cap'e Verde (P.A.I.G.C.) and Principal Com• Bajbouj and eight other members of the regional lead• missioner of the Council of Commissioners of • State of ership of the Party, Commander-in-Chief of-the-Peo• the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, visited" the Chinese Em• ple's Army Mohammed Ali, other high-ranking govern• bassy in Bissau on the afternoon of September 10 to ment officials, leading members of trade unions, and express condolences on the passing of Chairman Mao. youth, women and student organizations as well as Tsetung. noted figures of various circles. Paying condolence calls at the Chinese Embassy Premier Khleifawi told the Chinese Ambassador: were also: Joao Bernardo Vieira, Member of the Per• "On behalf of the Syrian Government and people, I. manent Secretariat of the P.A.I.G.C, President of. the express deep condolences to the friendly Chinese people National People's Assembly and Commissioiier'of State on the loss of their great leader." for. Armed Forces;' Jose Araujo, Secretary of Organiza• President 'of the Palestinian National .Council tion of the P.A.I.G.C. and Commissioner of State With• Khaled Fahoum, leading members of Palestinian com• out . Portfolio; and other high-ranking officials.. . mando organizations, and representatives-of Palestinian;-

52: Peking Review,-No; 40 mass organizations also called at the Chinese Embassy Minister of Pests ami Telecommunications" and Pres• to mourn the death of Chairman Mao Tsetung. ident of the Italy-China Economic and Cultural Ex• change Association, said at the Embassy:."The*death of Nigeria Chairman Mao is the greatest loss to the Chinese people and to the world people as well. Chairman Mao will On behalf of the Nigerian Head of State Olusegun live for ever in the hearts of the Chinese and Italian "Obasanjo, Chief of Staff of the Supreme Headquarters people." Also making condolence calls at the Chinese Shehu Yar'Adua called at the Chinese Embassy in Lagos Embassy were Italian Foreign Minister Arnaldo Fori on September 11 at the head of a delegation to mourn Iani, President of the Senate Amintore Fanfani and the death of Chairman Mao Tsetung. • President of the Chamber of Deputies Pietro Ingrao.* Members of the delegation included Joseph Garba, Fosco Dinucci, General Secretary of the Communist

Nigerian Commissioner for External Affairs, M.D. Party of Italy (Marxist-Leninist); Giovanni Scuderij1 Yusufu, Inspector-General of Police, and other high- General Secretary of the Marxist-Leninist Organization ranking officers and officials. of the Italian Bolshevik Communists; Vincenzo Calo,' Condolence calls were paid "at" the Chinese Em• General Secretary of the Party of Socialist Revolution bassy by Nigerian government officials, friendly per• of Italy; and Osvaldo Pesce, General Secretary of the sonages from all walks of life, overseas Chinese after Organization of the Communists of Italy (Marxist- -the broadcast of the news on the death of Chairman Leninist), called separately at the Chinese Embassy in

Mao Tsetung on September 9. Rome between September 10 and 12 to express deepest1 condolences on the death of Chairman Mao Tsetung,'i Kuwait the great leader-of the Chinese people and the great teacher of the international proletariat. L Under-Secretary of the Amiri Diwan Daij Al-Jaber Fosco Dinucci called at the Chinese Embassy to- Al-Ali and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah "gether with some members of the Political Bureau of; .Al-Ahmad Al-Jabir Al-Sabah, representing Kuwaiti the Central Committee of the Communist Party of, Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem Sabah and Crown Prince "Italy (M-L).. He ' said, "The Central Committeej -and Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Ahmed Al-Jaber 'of our Party and our Party members throughout the Sabah respectively, called at the Chinese Embassy in "country are deeply grieved at the death of Comrade Mao( Kuwait on September 11 to express condolences on Tsetung." "The death of Comrade Mao Tsetung is a| the passing of Chairman Mao Tsetung. "tremendous loss,.but we will follow his teachings and; Under-Secretary Daij Al-Jaber Al-Ali wrote in -the turn our grief ;into strength. To us, Comrade Maoj -condolence book, "With extremely-deep grief, we have Tsetung is not dead '— he will fight with us for ever," learnt of the sad news of the death of the great lead• 'Dinucci said. • -• - •. •< ii er Chairman Mao. We Arab people have lost our great friend. Here, we convey the heartfelt condolences of -" ' Osvaldo Pesce led 11-leading-members of the Or• His Highness the Amir on the death of China's great ganization of the Communists of Italy (M-L) to the, deader and great statesman. The "incalculable influence Chinese Embassy. They stood in silent tribute after | '. of Chairman Mab will win immortality in world his• presenting a Party flag bearing their signatures before' tory. Eternal glory to the great leader and great states• the portrait of the late Chairman Mao Tsetung. j ] man!" Vincenzo Calo called at the Chinese Embassy at the' head of a delegation composed of five leading members, Representing the Crown Prince, and Prime Minis- of the Party of Socialist Revolution of Italy. -ter, the Minister of Foreign Affairs wrote in the con- A ""dolence book, _"The"~death of Chairman Mao is a great . Calling at the Chinese Embassy were also Pietro] loss not only to the Chinese people but also to the peo• Nenni, Chairman of .the Italian Socialist Party, Giorgio ples of the whole world." ...... Zucchetti, Secretary-General of the Italian Association for Cultural and Friendly Relations With the Peo• Making condolence calls at the Chinese Embassy ple's Republic of China, friendly personages from were also other Kuwaiti officials, noted Jigures includ• various circles and representatives of Chinese residents! ing. Khalid Salih Al-Ghuneim. _ in Italy. ' > : Giuseppe Del Pennine, Consul-General of the Rejj "Italy :3 public of San Marino in Rome, made a condolence cattj Italian government officials and personages from on behalf of his government. if various circles called at the Chinese Embassy on Edouard Saouma, Director-General of the U.N.I September 10, 11 and 12 to extend their deepest con• Food and Agriculture Organization, also made a con-j dolences on the death of Chairman Mao Tsetung, the dolence call at the Chinese Embassy. great leader and teacher of the Chinese people. Franco Bezzi, Secretary-General of the Italian Pres• Zaire idential Office, conveyed to the Chinese Embassy the deep condolences of President Giovanni Leone on the Zairian President Mobutu Sese Seko called at the death of Chairman Mao Tsetung. On behalf of Italian Chinese Embassy in Kinshasa on September 18 to Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, Vittorino Colombo, - deeply mourn the passing of Chairman Mao Tsetung at

September 30, 1976 53 'the time, when the solemn memorial meeting; was-being- Leninism, the revolutionary teachings of Chairman Mao held in Peking. Tsetung, and in applying them independently and with a spirit of responsibility to the concrete realities of our | :. President Mobutu stood in silent tribute before the country." portrait of Chairman Mao. Then he wrote in the con• dolence book: "On this day of homage to the memory Also making condolence calls at the Chinese Em• of Chairman Mao Tsetung, our grief is as deep as the bassy on September 10 and several days after were rep• sincere friendship, the profound respect and the great resentatives of international organizations in Benin and -admiration that we have always cherished for this more than 1,000 Benin people. great deceased Chinese leader." On September 11, the Central Committee of the Accompanying the President during the call were Party of the Popular Revolution of Benin issued a all Members of the Political Bureau of the Popular statement on the passing of Chairman Mao Tsetung. It -Revolutionary Movement of Zaire (P.R.M.Z.) In Kin- says: "The whole life of Chairman Mao Tsetung was -shasa, Commissioners of State of the National Execu• a brilliant and everlasting example of hard work, per• tive Council and Representatives of the Permanent severing and unyielding struggle, of clear-sightedness, Bureau of the National Legislative Council, as well as shrewdness and ardent tenacity and revolutionary zeal leading officials of Kinshasa. to the service of the just cause of total, radical and complete liberation of the proletariat and of the Chinese ' The P.R.M.Z. Political Bureau Members who called people, an example of discretion and modesty as well at the Chinese Embassy with the President were Hep as of firmness in implementing the Marxist principle Nsongoamba; Bo-Boliko Lokonga, President of the of proletarian internationalism and of constant and Permanent Bureau of the National Legislative Council; effective support to the struggle for the emancipation JSTguza Karl Ibond, Commissioner of State for Foreign of the peoples of the third world." It says that Chairman Affairs and International Co-operation; Engulu Baan- Mao Tsetung "passed away at his combat post in the gampongo Bakokela Lokanga, Commissioner of State service of the interests of the Chinese people and for for Political Affairs; Kengo Wa Dondo, Attorney- the revolutionary cause of the peoples of the world. General of the Republic; Bayona Ba Meya, First.Pres• This worthy son of progressive mankind will live for ident of the Supreme Court; Bumba Moaso Djongi,- ever in the memory of the peoples of the world." Commander-in-Chief of the Zairian Armed Forces; Shiga Boyenge, Chief of the • General Staff of the Na• tional Gendarmery; Kikunda Ombala, Chief of the Cyprus General Staff of the Air Force;, and Lomponda Wa Archbishop Makarios, President of the Republic of Botende, Chief of the General Staff of the Naval Force. Cyprus, called at. the Chinese Embassy in Nicosia on September 18 to express condolences' on the passing of From September 11 to 18, many Zairian officials and friendly personages from various circles also paid , Chairman Mao Tsetung. condolence calls at the Chinese Embassy. President Makarios wrote in the condolence, book: "Chairman Mao has gone down in history as a great Benin , man. His amazing work will be admired for ever."-

Mathieu Kerekou, President of the People's Re• Earlier, President- of the House of Representatives public of Benin, called at- the Chinese Embassy in Tassos Papadopoulos, Minister of Foreign Affairs Yoan- Cotonou on September 13 to extend condolences on the nis Christophides, other high government officials. and passing of Chairman Mao Tsetung. friendly personages from all circles also paid con• dolence calls at the Chinese Embassy. Accompanying the President on the condolence call were all the Ministers of the Benin Government and some Members of the Central Committee of the Party Upper VoSta of the Popular Revolution of Benin. Upper Volta President Sangoule Lamizana on Sep• President Kerekou wrote in the book of condolence: tember 13 called at the Chinese Embassy in Ouaga• •"In the name of Benin, the Central Committee of the dougou to offer condolences on the passing of Chairman Party of the Popular Revolution of Benin and the Rev• Mao Tsetung. olutionary Military Government of Benin, we express He was accompanied by senior government offi• profound condolences on the death of Chairman Mao Tsetung, the esteemed and beloved great leader of the cials. Chinese people and the great leader of the proletariat of The-President wrote in the condolence book: With the contemporary world. The Benin people, together the passing of Chairman Mao Tsetung, not only the with the peoples, revolutionary parties and revolution• Chinese people but also all the progressive people have ^ ary movements of all countries, pledge their firm re• lost one of the illustrious figures we greatly admire; ' solve to turn this grief into more constant and more profound revolutionary action 'in studying Marxism- .. > (To be continu.e.d,)

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