Telegram to the People's Republic of Bulgaria
(October 19, 1957)

Source: FBIS, Daily Report (Oct. 23, 1957), KK 3–4.

We have no Chinese text of this telegram. This is a representation of the FBIS report in its
original form (the annotation, however, is our own), which was a release by the Home
Service, Sofia (Oct. 19, 1957).
This is a joint telegram to G. Damyanov, chairman of the Presidium of the National
Assembly of the People's Republic of Bulgaria; A. Yugov, chairman of the Council of
Ministers of the People's Republic of Bulgaria; and T. Zhivkov, minister of Foreign Affairs
of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from Mao, as chairman of the PRC and the Chairman
of the CPC; Liu Shaoqi, as chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's
Congress of the PRC; and Zhou Enlai, as premier of the State Council of the PRC. The
original report does not carry salutations or signatures.

On behalf of the Chinese people, the Chinese Communist Party, and the
government of the Chinese People's Republic, we transmit to you and through you
to the Bulgarian people, the Bulgarian Communist Party, and the government of
the Bulgarian People's Republic heartfelt thanks for your greeting telegram on the
occasion of the eighth anniversary of the establishment of the Chinese People's

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Republic. We see with pleasure that recently the relations of friendship and
collaboration between the Chinese and Bulgarian peoples have further developed
after the visit of the Bulgarian government delegation led by Anton Yugov.¹ Taking
the opportunity of this occasion, we wish to the fraternal Bulgarian people new
successes in the building of socialism and the consolidation of peace in Europe and
throughout the world.

Note

1. Anton Yugov, chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People’s Republic of
Bulgaria, headed a delegation of the Bulgarian government touring China in September and
October 1957. A joint communiqué between the two governments was signed on October
11 in Beijing. (See RMSC [1958], pp. 412–413).