Bratislava Communiqué Press Leak

STATEMENT OF COMMUNIST PARTIES AND WORKERS PARTIES OF SOCIALIST COUNTRIES:
The Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance,
On the third of August, 1968, a conference of representatives of the Communist Parties of our Socialist Union, following a call for convention by Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, Andrei Gromyko, in response to heightened tensions the following was discussed:
United on the principles of Marxist-Leninism, Proletarian Internationalism , the responsibility and honor of the Communist Parties in supporting and protecting the gains of their proletariats, the benefit of increased bilateral and multilateral trade between member states of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, and the inviolability of the borders established by the signing of the Potsdam Agreement, all states have committed themselves to their working class, their peasantry, their intellectuals, the entire Socialist population, and the populations of the world which remain forcibly bound by the shackles of imperialist capitalism.
In the spirit of established tradition, in the atmosphere of complete frankness, integrity, and friendship, building off of the immense sacrifices of the Red Army of the Soviet Union and the sacrifices of the Soviet people in quelling the ravages of Hitler’s Germany, all convened fraternal brothers spoke with a clear and common desire for European security.
All states, opposed to war, though made inevitable by the aggressiveness of the United States of America, remain committed to the disbanding of the Warsaw Pact once the threat of the capitalist expansionist tendencies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is removed, only possible by the disbanding of the NATO.
Obligated by a sense of mutual responsibility, not only to our fraternal states but also by our Communist Parties to the working people of our fraternal states, all states have vowed to continue working towards democracy and Socialist progress across the European continent, mobilizing especially against the surge of anti-revolutionists, including but not limited to the actions of the imperialist United States against our allies in Vietnam and the excessive aggression of the Israeli rulers against the Arab population.
    The fraternal parties of the Warsaw Pact remain committed to the heightening of the knowledge of the proletariat in accordance with the teachings of Lenin and his loyal predecessors, and remain concerned with the intrusion of anti-Communist ideology across the European continent by reaffirming the importance of a Socialist union built off of fraternity, unity, and consistency.