Reply to Ambassador of the Soviet Union
(December 15, 1952)

Source: RMRA (Dec. 16, 1952), |. Available English Translation: FE
Daily Report (Dec. 16, 1952), AAA.

Punyushkin served as ambassador of the USSR to the PRC from Decemb
April 1953,

Comrade Ambassador:

Tam very pleased to accept the letter of credence from the Presidium of
Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which you 5
presented, and I sincerely thank you for your congratulations.

For the past three years, the friendly and cooperative relations between |
People's Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ni
been greatly consolidated and developed. As a result of unceasing efforts
the Chinese people and with the fraternal assistance of the great ea
government of the Soviet Union, New China has achieved successes in vee
area and will soon enter into large-scale economic construction,

our two great countries will not only be beneficial to the prosperity 0}
and the Soviet Union, but will also play an inestimably great role in the &

of ensuring peace in the Far East and in the world. -
Comrade Ambassador, I warmly we Hf Lazt<

OCTOBER - DECEMBER 1952 / 307

and plenipotentiary of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the Peo-ary Republic of China. In your work of consolidating the friendship and

ration between China and the Soviet Union you will receive my full sup-ern that of the government of the People’s Republic of China,

jsincerely wish you complete success in your work.