First Published: In
Ulaanbaatar, in Novosti Mongolii,
in Russian, 8 December 1982, pages 1 and 2.
Source of the translation: Mongolia Report, No. 354
(2 February 1983), pages 10-17. United States Defense Technical Information Center,
Arlington (VA), USA.
Transcription/HTML/Markup for marxists.org: April
2024.
Comrades!
Communists and workers of Mongolia received with deep grief the sad news of the death of L. I. Brezhnev, general secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet, eminent leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet state, a figure of high authority in the international communist movement, and tireless champion of peace and friendship between peoples.
L. I. Brezhnev dedicated all of his strength and his wealth of knowledge and experience to the triumph of the ideas of the Great October, to the noble struggle for the victory of socialism and communism, and for preservation and strengthening of peace throughout the world.
Leonid Il'ich Brezhnev was a loyal Leninist, a consistent internationalist and a tireless champion of peace and friendship between peoples. He made a huge contribution to strengthening and developing in every way possible the inviolable Leninist friendship and comprehensive cooperation between the Soviet and Mongolian peoples. Leonid Il'ich Brezhnev, sincere friend of the Mongolian people, was awarded the titles of Hero of the MPR, Hero of Labor, and Honorary Citizen of the Mongolian People's Republic.
Communists and workers of socialist Mongolia pay a tribute of deep respect to the late Leonid II'ich Brezhnev and in their hearts they will always keep his bright image as a leading champion of peace and social progress of humanity.
Let us stand and honor the bright memory of Leonid Il'ich Brezhnev with a minute of silence.
Comrades!
Under consideration at the current Plenum of the party Central Committee is the question of the results of the second year of the five-year plan and the
tasks for the country's socio-economic development in 1983. Comrade J. Bat- monh, member of the MPRP Central Committee Politburo and chairman of the MPR Council of Ministers, will present a report on this question.
In the current year our country's workers, supported by the fraternal aid of the Soviet Union and other socialist countries, and through their own intensive labor, are achieving new successes in developing our economy and culture.
A great stimulus for labor has been provided by the socialist competition throughout the country in honor of the 65th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution and the 60th anniversary of the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
It is gratifying to note that dozens of industrial enterprises and other economic organizations, hundreds of shops and departments, many thousands of our workers are already working toward fulfilling the plan for the third year of the five-year plan.
Presently in the country more than 9.4 million head of all different kinds of young livestock are being raised. This year our farmers achieved definite successes in grain harvests.
According to preliminary data, this year's plan for gross industrial production will be surpassed. The collectives of the Joint Mongolian-Soviet "Erdenet" Mining and Concentrating Combine and the Nalayh and Berh mines are excellent models of successful fulfillment of production quotas.
There are also many leading collectives in other sectors of the national economy and culture that are achieving remarkable results in creative labor.
The tasks set by the party and government for improving the workers' well-being are being realized steadily. The national income produced in 1982 increased by 7.4 percent compared to the previous year, and the volume of means appropriated by the state for financing social and cultural measures has increased by 16 percent.
From year to year our economy is growing and becoming stronger. Now in 40 days we produce the same gross national product as was produced in 1950 in an entire year.
Guided by the results we have achieved and the possibilities at hand, the party is setting important new tasks for the coming year. The outline of the national economy plan for 1983 corresponds to the tasks outlined at the 18th party Congress for the country's socio-economic development and improvement in the people's well-being. The gains outlined in the plan can be accomplished only on a foundation of effective and efficient work in all sectors of the national economy and culture. We are speaking of improving every link in the production chain and improving the entire chain as a whole. V. I. Lenin wrote:
"If a steel chain is needed to support a weight of 100 poods, then what will happen if just one steel link in the chain is replaced by a wooden one?
The chain will break
The strength or integrity of all the other links cannot save the situation.
The wooden link breaks and the whole chain breaks." (V. I. Lenin, Complete Works; vol. 32, p. 201).
It should be emphasized that not everywhere are we consistently putting into practice the party's course on improving the efficiency of national production and the quality of work and on providing high final results. In a number of cases the reason for this is a lack of a truly critical approach to the issue on the part of many management workers, in party, state and social organizations, and they may also fail to meet the party's demands for applying self-analysis to their work.
We should not forget that year by year we have a steady increase in the scale of production, economic ties expand and deepen, both within individual sectors and throughout the national economy as a whole. Under these conditions, flaws in management and absence of efficient, well-coordinated work in all the links of the economy can lead to failure to fulfill plan quotas. We have quite a few examples of this.
Under this year's relatively favorable weather conditions, livestock losses increased by a factor of 1.7-2.6 compared to the same period last year in the following aymags: Suhbaatar (comrade D. Tseren, first secretary of the aymag party commitee: comrade S. Dorj, chairman of the executive committee of the aymag assembly of people's deputies); Hobsgol (comrade G. Chingel, first secretary of the aymag part committee; comrade I. Gulhu, chairman of the executive committee of the aymag assembly of peoples'deputies); and Dronod (comrade Y. Toybgo, first secretary of the aymag party committee; comrade D. Lhasuren, chairman of the executive committee of the aymag assembly of peoples deputies).
In terms of farming, a number of the country's state farms did not fulfill their harvest plans. The reasons for this lie in a failure to observe agro-technical methods and in poor organization. For example, the Bayanharat state farm in Selenge aymag (comrade S. Choyjo, director; comrade D. Yagan, party committee secretary) obtained almost half as much grain per hectare as did the neighboring Yoroo farm (comrade N. Nyamjargal, director; comrade J. Gerelchuluun, party committee secretary), in spite of the fact that the soil and climatic conditions at these farms are essentially the same.
Systematic expansion of irrigated land for cultivation is of great importance in our country's arid conditions. We have acquired significant experience in irrigating land for growing grain, potatoes and vegetables, as well as hay, by improving exploitation of irrigation systems and utilizing local water resources—streams, springs, boring wells, and melted snow. However, not all agricultural associations, state farms and fodder farms demonstrate activity, initiative and persistence in mobilizing their possibilities and reserves.
When speaking of increasing the crop capacity of the fields, we should also devote the necessary attention to developing seed-farming. High-quality seeds are a guarantee of the future harvest. We must reproduce high-quality seeds taking into consideration the soil and climatic conditions of a given region; we must provide seed-growing farms with the necessary technology and equipment. This requires that the Ministry of Agriculture, party and state agencies of the corresponding aymags, and scientific research institutions join forces and demonstrate creative initiatives.
We must activate work in the proper ministries for developing long-term, directed food production programs.
Comrades! We have serious deficiencies in fulfilling capital construction plans.
We must constantly increase the responsibility of both the construction organizations and their clients for developing and realizing plans of organizational-technical measures to fulfill state quotas in all indicators.
Rational, economic utilization of material resources is becoming one of the most pressing problems in developing our country's economy. In light of this, every ministry was assigned for the first time in 1981, five-year goals for economy of different types of material resources.
In a number of industrial organizations, one can often see wasteful use of material and fuel-energy resources. We must make strict demands that economic, management, party and social organizations rid themselves of these negative phenomena.
Questions of economy of material resources must become a topic of periodic discussion at meetings of primary party organizations, in aymag, city and rayon party committees. We need to establish the conditions under which each communist, Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League member, pioneer, and each citizen cannot ignore the facts of waste and poor management. The Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League and pioneer organizations should play a large role here in developing the fundamental planning, and should report on their work to the proper higher-level organizations.
The campaign for economy and thrift is a campaign for improved quality in all of our work. Therefore, it is of great partywide and statewide significance. The course and results of the campaign must be presented regularly by means of mass communication.
Communists and workers of our country at one time greeted with great enthusiasm the slogan of the party Central Committee: "From childhood everyone should be scrupulously economical, zealous and thrifty, and every step of the way should be vigilant and save every bit, every grain of socialist property, showing the utmost respect for labor." Party organizations have done a great deal of political organization work to realize the party's urgent appeal, and many interesting and useful undertakings have been worked out. However, it must be stated that in some party organizations and also at a number of industrial enterprises and farms, the ideas of the slogan have not been given first priority. The highly meaningful appeal made by the party is a continuous program task which must be practiced every day in the activities of every communist and Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League member, every worker in all sectors of the economy and culture.
Comrades! The party assigns the utmost importance to ideological support for fulfilling plan quotas. This means that with the aid of agitation and propaganda, we must provide the ideological-political training for our people to fulfill state plans successfully and we must strive for each worker to have adeep understanding of his role in realizing the plans. Agitation and propaganda work must be conducted constantly among labor collectives. Propaganda for and introduction of progressive methods must be given priority.
Thorough knowledge and analysis of concrete economic indicators, support and dissemination of progressive methods, realization of real control over the fulfillment of state plans, and critical evaluation of one's own work—this is where party, state and social organizations and their leaders should concen-trate their attention.
With a highly responsible and creative approach to the matter, election meetings should be organized and held in the first half of 1983 in primary party organizations and aymag, city, and rayon party conferences.
Party groups are called upon to play an important role in solving the tasks set before labor collectives. Worthy of note and dissemination is the experience of the party group of one of the brigades of the exploitation section No 2 of the Nalayh mine (comrade T. Dorj, party group organizer) and the party group of the livestock brigade "Gubee" in the Dzereg somon, Hobd aymag (comrade B. Dashdzebeg, party group organizer).
Aymag, city and rayon party committees and primary party organizations should pay particular attention to systematic improvement of party group leadership, to generalizing and disseminating their progressive methods through the press, radio and other means of mass communication.
Comrades! The attention of all our organizations now should be directed at better organization of wintering livestock, delivery and raising of young animals, and on complete preservation of the entire livestock population over the winter-spring period. A central position should be given to introducing methods of leading workers, and scientific-technical achievements on the basis of concrete plans. To determine, study and disseminate the best labor models, to develop creative activity among our workers, aymag and city party committees, aymag and city executive committees, and agricultural and social organizations must make fuller use of the huge possibilities of socialist competition, and they must eliminate elements of formalism in organizing it. The most important point here is model organization of control over implementing the measures outlined in the plan.
The party Central Committee is appealing to all communists and workers of our country to mobilize all their efforts toward successfully fulfilling and surpassing state plan quotas for 1983.
Comrades! The celebration of the 65th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution throughout the world has turned into a graphic demonstration of the triumphant procession of the ideas of the Great October, and of further strengthening of the unity and solidarity of the peoples of countries of socialist cooperation and all progressive forces of the world in the struggle for a better future for mankind.
We now are moving toward yet another important date of great international significance—the 60th anniversary of the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the reliable stronghold of peace, democracy and social progress of peoples.
Practical socialism as expressed in countries of worldwide socialist cooperation has a determining influence on the course of history of mankind through its remarkable successes in building a new economy and culture, and in educating workers. The authority and influence of the foreign policy of world socialism is growing steadily. It consists mainly of maintaining peaceful conditions for building socialism and communism.
The policies of socialist countries are always confirmed by concrete actions. The most graphic example of this is the Soviet Union's commitment against first use of nuclear weapons. This is a bold and practical step and an urgent appeal to other nuclear powers, directed at averting the possibility of a nuclear war. The noble initiative of the Soviet Union is reinforced by consistent, constructive proposals directed at a nuclear freeze, immediate ban on nuclear testing, and so on.
Communists and workers of the MPR completely support the efforts of the Soviet Union in deepening the process of detente, controlling the arms race and effecting disarmament as sincere strivings to avert the threat of nuclear war.
The constancy and consistency of the foreign policy of the Soviet Union were once again confirmed in the speech given by comrade Yu. V. Andropov, general secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, at the regular Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee. Comrade Yu. V. Andropov's words, full of deep optimism and humanism as he stated that the difficulties and tension in the world can and should be overcome, inspired peoples in different parts of this planet for further development of the campaign for peace and a peaceful future for man-kind.
Comrades! The foreign policy and practical actions of the MPRP and MPR government are directed consistently toward strengthening peace and security in Asia. Now this huge continent still remains an arena of dangerous confrontation.
Practicing a strategy of global expansion, the current administration of the United States is increasing and intensifying its interference in the internal affairs of governments on the Asian continent. The barbaric aggression against Lebanon, the genocide against the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples provide clear evidence of the anti-Arab, neo-colonialist thrust of the so-called American-Israeli strategic agreement and the Camp David accord. Our party and the MPR government severely condemn the bloody crimes of Tel Aviv and its supporters, and they support the comprehensive settlement of the problem in the Middle East on the foundation of principles set forth in the proposal of the Soviet Union on 15 September of this year.
The situation in Southeast Asia remains very serious because of the constant schemes of imperialist forces and their accomplices that are in conflict with the new realities here, specifically, the steady strengthening of the people's democratic order in Kampuchea. Reactionary forces are doing everything to aggravate the tensions in this region; they are trying to turn ASEAN into a military-political block.
The fraternal countries of Indochina are making every effort to normalize conditions in the region and to improve relations with ASEAN countries. The MPR values highly their constructive proposals and initiatives which serve as a good foundation for stabilization of the situation in Southeast Asia.
The military-political strategy of the United States to draw Japan into its orbit is causing growing concern among peoples in the Far East. The American- Japanese "security agreement" assumes sinister practical implications as a re-sult of which militarism is growing in Japan itself. This clearly contradicts the fundamental interests of the peoples of Asia, including the Japanese people themselves.
The peoples want to see in Japan a government making its contribution to strengthening peace and developing mutually beneficial cooperation on the Asian continent.
Concerned over the current situation in a number of regions in Asia, the MPR is following closely the policies and actions of the Chinese leadership after the 12th Chinese Communist Party Congress. We are not indifferent to the kind of foreign policy course it practices. The policies and actions of the Chinese government directly affect not only our country and all the states neighboring China, but also the state of affairs throughout Asia and the entire world.
From this podium I would like to confirm once again our country's consistent position concerning Mongolian-Chinese relations: they can be normalized on the basis of principles corresponding to the interests of socialism and peace.
The MPR government attaches great importance to the realistic policies of the Indian government in the international arena. They serve as an important factor in strengthening peace and stability in Asia and throughout the world. In light of this, we note with satisfaction the important results of the recent official visit by the Prime Minister of India to the Soviet Union.
Coordinating its actions closely with the Soviet Union and other fraternal countries, the MPR government is directing its efforts toward developing friendly relations with Asian states, strengthening mutual understanding and trust among them, and realizing joint acts for maintaining peace and security on the Asian continent. This is the direction of the MPR's initiative for working out and signing a convention on non-aggression and no use of force in relations among the states of Asia and the Pacific Ocean. The positive reaction of many countries in Asia and other regions of the world makes us confident that it corresponds fully to the fundamental interests of the peoples of our continent and to the aim of strengthening trust among them.
The Mongolian people, just as other peoples of the world, take a decisive stand against the extremely dangerous course of imperialist and reactionary forces, primarily that of the American militarists, directed at intensifying confrontation and realizing a "crusade" against practical socialism.
The Mongolian people and the MPR government strongly condemn the criminal preparations of the United States and its allies for a new war, their pressure and blackmail in dealing with the Soviet Union, Poland and other socialist countries, the intensification of the United States military presence in various parts of the world, their attempts to expand the sphere of criminal acts of NATO, and so on.
A wide wave of protest and indignation throughout the world, even in the United States itself, was brought on by the recent adventuristic decision of the American administration to deploy 100 new "MX" intercontinental ballistic missiles, an offensive weapon, not a defensive one.
Today, as never before, it is of utmost importance that every effort be made to strengthen the unity in actions of socialist countries, all revolutionary and peaceful forces, the anti-war and anti-nuclear movements from all different segments of the population in all different parts of the world, for the defense of peace, for defense of peoples' right to exist, for eliminating the danger of a thermonuclear catastrophe.
As a result of all this, the MPRP and the MPR government, as before, are directing their future foreign policy activity toward strengthening in every way possible friendship and comprehensive cooperation with the Soviet Union and other countries of socialist cooperation, toward further reinforcement of the unity of socialist countries and all progressive and peaceful forces in the struggle for deepening international detente and averting nuclear war, for preserving and strengthening peace on earth.
Comrades! In conclusion, I call on you to participate actively in the work of the present Plenum.