The conference continued with separate meetings of the WACL regions.
ABN held a workshop on common strategy approaches in combatting communism. ABN youth delegates actively participated in the WYFL meeting.
On August 20, the Captive Nations Rally was held at the China Sports and Cultural Activities Center. Honorary WACL chairman Dr. Ku Cheng-kang addressed the rally, other addresses were delivered by
- Congressman Charles Wilson of the USA,
- the Hon. Ortwin Lowack, member of the West German Parliament,
- the Hon. Antonio Ortez Turcios of Honduras,
- the Hon. Jong-Woor Hong'or Korea,
- the Hon. Takeo Hiranuma of Japan,
- Professor Abdul Sattar Sirat of Afghanistan,
- the Hon. Jacques Teuira of French Polynesia.
- Mrs. Stetsko addressed the rally from ABN.
The joint closing ceremonies featured speeches by the following statesmen:
- Governor of the State of Arizona, USA, Evan Mecham;
- Mr. Lic Bernal Urbina Pinto, a political activist from Costa Rica, * General Luis A. Villa-Real of the Philippines,
- the Hon. John Wilkinson, member of the British Parliament and president of the EFCand cence Me. Pierre Schifferli from Switzerland, which will host the 21st WACL conference
The conference ended with a farewell dinner hosted by Dr. and Mrs. Ku Cheng-kang.
The conference issued a final joint communiquc assessing the world situation, contrasting the success of the Free World with the ever increasing failures of communism. The communique urges free nations to strive for unity as part of a global anti-communist strategy, and calls upon them to "provide moral, political, and logistical military support for all anti-communist freedom fighters... We must never accept as final, the division of the world into half slave - half free."
During the course of the conference, in official capacity as delegates and in private conversations, representatives of the ABN were able to promote the struggle for freedom of the subjugated nations. Literature in several languages was distributed to the conference participants and old contacts were strengthened and new ones were made. The high level and overall success of the conference, in which the subjugated nations were able to promote their cause and generally inform the Free World of their plight, prove the importance and necessity of such conferences and our participation in them.
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ABN delegates in the front row at the Caprive Nations Rally.
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