States which in the very recent past had bseen diamet- ricdly opposed on almost all major issues. We are sure that there arc now good prospects for the establishment between the USSR and the Federal Republi’c of Ger- many of relations of good-neighbourliness, mutual und.ersltanding sand co-operation in (the interests of peace and for the ldevelopment of comprehensive and long-term economic, $echnical anid cultural links and co-operatioa b’etween the ‘two States. All this con- solidates the snove towards new and normal political and olther relations-long ‘overdue in a time of peace -and towards co-operation betwmeen the Soviet Union an,d #the Federal Republic of Germany, 63. The Soviet Union is pursuing a Icon&tent and purposeful policy designed to bring ab’out d&ente and the strengthening of peace and the s~ectity ‘of peoples, with #the support of and in co-operatioa with al’1 States of the sol&list colmmunity and ‘all peace-lloving coun,tries ,of the world. The process of normalization of relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic and between the F&era1 Republic of Germany and the Pmolish People’s Republic, the Czecholslovak Socialist Republic and olther social& States, the admission of the two German States to the United Nations, the construotive and flomishing co-operation between the Soviet Union and France, the ~measnres for the development and strength- ening of good-neighbourly relations between the USSR and Japan, lthe mutual rmd.erstandinlg reached with the Government of the United States of America on a number of very important questioas of international politics and (the present visit to the United States of L. I. Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Central Com- mittee of the Co~mmudst Party #of the Soviet Union, and the further development and strengthening of relations of friendship anld co-operation b1etweer-r ,the USSR and India and other countries of Asia and with 