To
Politburo of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party

MEMORANDUM
of the “Foreign Policy and International Relations” department of the CC BCP

Regarding: widening the political, economic and moral support to the Republic of Afghanistan

Comrades,

In connection with comrade Michail Gorbachev's letter to comrade Todor Zhivkov regarding Afghanistan, in view to the new situation in that country after signing the Geneva agreements, Politburo of the CC BCP entrusted the Foreign Affairs Commission at Politburo and Secretariat of the Bulgarian Communist Party with the preparation of an offer for the further widening of the political, economic and moral support of the Republic of Afghanistan (protocol No 72 from 17th May 1988).

Additionally a letter was received for comrade Georgi Atanassov from Afghanistan's Prime-Minister Mohamad Hassan Shark with an appeal for help at this difficult moment.

We are proposing a project for decision, worked out by the Commission for foreign issues at Politburo and the Secretariat of the CC BCP with the participation of the “ Foreign Policy and International Relations” department of the CC BCP, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign-economic relations.

The draft of a resolution has been coordinated with the “Organizational”, “Economic and Scientific-technical policy” and “Financial-economic” departments of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party.

August 3rd 1988

First deputy-head of the “Foreign Policy and International Relations” department of the CC BCP: /K. Atanassov/