România și schisma sovieto-chineză, VII Plenara din 15-22 aprilie 1964
Romania and the Soviet-Chinese schism, VII. The plenum of April 15-22, 1964

Summary/Abstract: At the end of the ‘50s, Romania was striving to achieve a more active international position. Political and economic consolidation of the regime at home seemed to justify such a tendency. Romania’s efforts to further its own interests began being construed internationally as a long-term policy and not a circumstantial one. Concurrently, the worsening Soviet-Chinese conflict provided a window of opportunity not to be neglected. The real standtaking came during the plenary meeting of the CC of the Romanian Workers Party in April 1964, later to materialize in a document recorded in history as the Declaration of April 1964. According to RWP leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, this document was designed to express publicly “our party’s stand on the core issues of the international communist and worker movement, which however should indicate clearly that we do not take up polemics either on the side of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union or on the side of the Chinese Communist Party.”

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