Telegram to the Kingdom of Cambodia
(November 7, 1956)

Source: Kau & Leung, The Writings of Mao Zedong 1949-1976, Vol. II
Pages 150-150
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the Soviet Union and other socialist countries.! This declaration fully exemplifies
the Soviet Union’s faithful adherence to the mutual interests of the great solidarity
of all socialist countries and to the principle of proletarian internationalism. These
steps taken by the Soviet government undoubtedly will further strengthen the unity
and the relations of friendship between the socialist countries, thus promoting their
common economic upsurge.

The great friendship and cooperation between China and the Soviet Union has
already had an overall development. The Chinese people are deeply aware from
their own personal experience that the everlasting friendship between China and
the Soviet Union conforms to the fundamental interests of the people of our two
countries and of the whole of progressive humanity. The further consolidation and
development of this friendship will greatly strengthen the forces for peace, democracy, and socialism and will contribute greatly to the cause of preserving world
peace and the progress of humanity.

May the everlasting fraternal friendship between the Chinese and the Soviet
peoples become consolidated and be developed with each passing day.

Long live the Great October Socialist Revolution!

(Co-signed as Chairman of PRC with Liu Shaoqi as Chairman of Standing
Committee of NPC and Zhou Enlai as Premier of State Council and Foreign
Minister, dated in Beijing)

Note

1. On October 30, 1956, the Soviet government issued a ‘‘Declaration on Friendship
and Cooperation between the Soviet Union and Other Socialist States’’ (see Pravda, Oct.
31, 1956). This declaration stated that ‘‘the countries of the great commonwealth of socialist
nations can build their relations only on the principle of full equality, respect for territorial
integrity, state independence and sovereignty, and noninterference in the domestic affairs of
one another.’’ This declaration was obviously designed to prevent the defection of Hungary
from the Soviet camp and to define the new conditions created by the events in Poland in
June-July and in Hungary in October-November.