To General Manager Zhou:
Letter Regarding the Documents for Establishing Diplomatic Relations with Yugoslavia
(October 20, 1954)

After dispatching Telegram No. Ill to Ambassador Zhang, please hand over this entire set of documents to Shaoqi and Shangkun (Comrade 21), and invite—excluding those who have already read them—the Central Committee members then in Beijing, as well as Comrade Wu, who has been supplemented to the Central Committee, together with a few other working comrades, to convene at the West Building for a round of review (no printing is required; alternatively, you may also include Khrushchev’s first letter).

Mao Zedong
October 20th
[I]
Refers to the CCP Central Committee’s telegram dated October 18, 1954, addressed to Chinese Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Zhang Wentian, concerning matters such as conducting diplomatic negotiations with Yugoslavia. The telegram stated:

“The Central Committee agrees to establish diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia without delay and has decided that you, on behalf of the Chinese government, shall conduct these negotiations in Moscow with the Yugoslav Ambassador to the Soviet Union.”

On January 2, 1955, China and Yugoslavia formally established diplomatic relations.

(2)
Shangkun refers to Yang Shangkun, who at that time served as Director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee.

(3)
This refers to a telegram dated September 23, 1954, sent by Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to the CPC Central Committee and Mao Zedong, regarding relations between the Soviet Union and the people’s democratic countries of Eastern Europe with Yugoslavia.