Democratic Palestine : 26 (ص 35)
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He stated that even though «socialism
removes the antagonism of interests,
contradictions of interests of various
groups of the population, collectives,
agencies and organizations» continue
to exist. These give rise to opposing
viewpoints and tendencies. Addressing
solutions to these difficulties, Gor-
bachev advocated «extensive develop-
ment of democracy... It is the
command-and-administer forms of
managing society that are braking our
movement. Democratic and _ only
democratic forms are capable of giving
it mighty acceleration.»
In conclusion, we note an important
point that may already be obvious to
our readers: The socialist renewal
underway in the Soviet Union is the in-
ternal backbone of the daring and in-
novative Soviet foreign policy, and its
cornerstone: The repeated, sincere
-balance, the
Soviet proposals for a world of peace,
free of nuclear weapons. Just as the
Soviet peace policy has thrown the most
imperialist powers off-
success of socialist
restructuring and renewal, and the ex-
pansion of socialist democracy in the
Soviet Union, can herald a future shift
in the international balance of forces,
in favor of the forces of peace, progress
and socialism worldwide. @
reactionary
Central American Peace Plan
On August 7th, the presidents of Guatemala, Nicaragua, El
Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica met in Guatemala City and
signed a peace plan for Central America. This raised hopes for a
serious effort to establish peace in the region. By ruling out US sup-
port to the contras, the plan represents a political victory for
Nicaragua’s revolution.
The plan was the accumulation of
nearly four years of regional peace
talks in Central America. It calls for:(1)
bringing about a ceasefire throughout
Central America within 90 days (by
November 7th); (2) stopping aid to all
rebel groups in the region; (3) pro-
hibiting the use of any country’s ter-
ritory for the purpose of undermining
Or overthrowing any other Central
American government; (4) providing
verification of the above-mentioned
measures; (5) amnesty for political
prisoners and the armed opposition in
each country; and (6) beginning a pro-
cess of democratization in the area.
As agreed by the five presidents, the
foreign ministers of thirteen Latin
American countries met in Caracas,
Venezuela on August 23rd, and created
a commission to verify compliance with
the Guatemala plan. The ten-member
commission consists of the foreign
ministers of Mexico, Venezuela, Col-
umbia, Panama, Argentina, Brazil,
Peru and Uruguay, and the secretary
generals of the UN and OAS, or their
senior representatives.
The Guatemala plan grew out of the
proposals presented by Costa Rican
President Oscar Arias in February. But
while Arias’ proposals were basically
directed against Nicaragua, for exam-
ple prohibiting arms shipments to the
Sandinista government, the Guatemala
plan deals with all countries in the
region on an equal basis. Most impor-
tantly, the Guatemala plan eclipsed US
President Reagan’s so-called peace plan
for Central America, which was in-
troduced just one day prior to the
Guatemala meeting.
The US plan, devised by Reagan and
House Speaker Jim Wright, aimed at
guaranteeing the survival of the
Nicaraguan counterrevolutionaries
(contras), rather than being a genuine
peace effort. It called for a negotiated
ceasefire acceptable to the contras,
while prohibiting any military aid from
the socialist countries to the Sandinista
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