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February 11, 1977

Telegram 066531 from the Romanian Embassy in Pyongyang to the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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TELEGRAM   066531

To: the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to comrade Constantin Oancea

From: the Romanian Embassy in Pyongyang

Date: February 11, 1977

Classification: Secret

 

On February 10, the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China to Pyongyang organized a screening of the movie dedicated to the memory of Chairman Mao Zedong. [North] Korean state and party officials, heads of the diplomatic missions and cultural attachés had been invited. It was notable that the Ambassadors of the USSR, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, the GDR and Mongolia did not attend, their participation being replaced by their second-in-command, with the exception of the Soviet Embassy on behalf of which only the cultural attaché attended.

 

Signed: V. Nanu

The Romanian Embassy in Pyongyang reports to the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Embassy of the PRC to Pyongyang's screening of a movie dedicated to the memory of Mao Zedong. Several Ambassadors of the USSR, GDR,and Mongolia were invited but did not attend the event.


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Archive of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Folder 931/1977, Issue 220/E, Bilateral relations between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and socialist countries in Asia (the People’s Republic of China and the People’s Republic of Kampuchea), February – October 1977. Obtained and translated for NKIDP by Eliza Gheorghe.

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2012-08-13

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Telegram

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114862

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Secret

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ROK Ministry of Unification and Leon Levy Foundation