In conjunction with the appearance in the "Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta" newspaper, Number 4, 2007 in Moscow an article titled: "Instead of a Congress-a Conference" we are stating the following:

As members of the Executive of the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People (V. Chechentsev) and members of the Editorial Board of Northstar Compass (V. Chechentsev)

and (V. Bourenkov), we agree with the decision that was made by an absolute majority of members of the International Council and of the Editorial Board of NSC to cancel the Third World Congress that was to be held on November 6-7-8, 2007 in Moscow and the decision to postpone the Congress until 2008.

We are disappointed that in spite of the initiative by the Organizing Committee in talking steps to organize the Third World Congress, headed by D. Dzhohadze of the Soviet Friendship Society, we were not able to resolve many problems that needed to be resolved in order that such a world-wide event would be held on a high level.

At the same time we absolutely are not in agreement with the comments made by D. Dzhohadze in the newspaper that the main cause of the cancellation of the Third World Congress is lack of initiative-plans by Michael Lucas and D. Dzhohadze on one side and V. Chechentsev, V. Bourenkov and Dzhohadze on the other side.

(1) Professor Dzhohadze from the time of the Second World Congress that was held in September of 2005 in Canada was an elected member of the Editorial Board of Northstar Compass. The attempt to make everyone think that you were not informed by anyone from the Editorial Board of NSC or from the International Council is not very serious excuse. Why this attempt to say: "No one from the International Council nor Chechentsev or Bourenkov did not inform me even by one word". We must ask the following question: "Then whom do you represent our dear professor?

And if the question was really about the organizational problems in organizing the Congress was no ongoing contacts either with the International Council or the Editorial Board of Northstar Compass, then why did you not professor Dzhohadze accept the invitation to be hosted and to attend the Mini Conference that was held on September 25-26-27, 2006 in Toronto, Canada where the Congress question was discussed for three days?

(2) Also there was criticism by professor Dzhohadze that there is not enough contacts established with the former Soviet republics. The Soviet Friendship Society is not working energetically enough, but it is ongoing, wrote Dzhohadze. But then in his article he says that he will not make any comment on the work of the Soviet Friendship Society.

First of all, professor Dzhohadze as a member of the Friendship Society since November 2006, and as a member he cannot not take any blame for some of the weaknesses in our work. Besides this, Dzhohadze as a leading member was giving a Report on December 19, 2006 to our Committee on "Plans that are ongoing in organizing the Third World Congress."

And, where are the results of these important plans?

The publishing of private-organizational correspondence between Lucas and Dzhohadze and correspondence between Bourenkov and Chechentsev, and his commentary shows us that Dzhohadze wants to distance himself and to put all the blame for this cancellation on the shoulders of the International Council and specifically on the shoulders of the Chairman of the International Council and Editor of Northstar Compass Michael Lucas. Besides this he also wants to put the blame on Chechentsev and Bourenkov, Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Soviet Society for Friendship.

In our opinion this is the result of the disunity, the fractional activity of the communist parties and other peoples organizations, some of whom did not and do not actually realize the great importance of what the Third World Congress for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People would have been able to accomplish - the dedication of friendship and solidarity with Soviet people and the resurrection of the Soviet Union. There were plans to give birth to the anti-imperialist world-wide front and the unifying of the revolutionary communist movements and the international working class in the struggle for Socialism!

V. Chechentsev – member of the International Council
V. Bourenkov – member of the Editorial Board – Northstar Compass

Members of the Central Executive Committee
Soviet Friendship Society with Peoples of Foreign Countries