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FM AMEMBASSY ROME 
TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 7951 
INFO AMEMBASSY BONN 
AMEMBASSY BRUSSELS 
AMEMBASSY THE HAGUE 
AMEMBASSY LUXEMBOURG 
AMEMBASSY LONDON 
AMEMBASSY PARIS 
USMlSSION NATO 

UNCLAS ROME 7857" 
SUBJECT1 ITAL.IAN GOVERNMENT STATEMENT ON CZECHOSLOVAKIA 
GOY RELEASED STATEMENT AFTERNOON AUGUST 221 FOLLOWING IS 
INFORMAL EMBASSV TRANSLATION• 

BEGIN TEXT THE COUNCIL . OF MINISTERS MET AT PALAZZO CHIGI AT l 140 UNDER CHAIRMANSHIP OF PRESIDENT OF COUNCIL~ SENATOR GIOVANNI LEONEa THE cOUNcIL OF MINISTERS HEARD A REPORT FROM MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS SENATOR MEDlCl1 AND · iFTER FULL EXAM I NAT I ON OF INTERNATIONAL , SITUATION APPROVED 
F0 l L0 W I NG· DEC LARA T·r0N1 
"THE INVASION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA BY THE SOVIET UNION ANO 
OTHER COMMUNIST COUNTRIES OF EASTERN EUROPE CONSTITUTES 
A F'L.AGRANT VIOLATION OF THE · NATURAL RIGHTS OF ; PEOPLES1 

OF' THE NORMS OF INTERNATIONAL · LAW1 AND OF' i THE UNITED 
NAT l CNS CHARTER• SUFFOCATING WI TH , FORCE OF · ARMS THE PRO .. 
CESS · OF DEMOCRATIZATION IN COURSE . IN · CZECHOSL.OVAKIA1 THE ' AGGRES· 

SlON HAS STRUCK A VERY HARO BLOW TO THE L~BERTY AND INDEPENDENCE OF A PEOPLE ANO TO TME PROCESS OF INTERNiTlONAL 
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