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Rebeivfed Suhday, 7 p,ni. LOXDOX,Ffcb. 12. Russia has aecused ^ugbsiavia ot haVing taken iip a hostlle attiitide tb wdrds Russia aild otltbr cbuRtrieS br Easteim Eurbpe, State agdhCy reports from Jfoscow. The aceihsatibn is ihatlc in the Russiah reply to a Yug'bSlav Xote which expfe'ssed silfpfise that Yugoslavia xvas hot invited to the fecehf economic confefence at Alofifcow and eomplained that fhis was an act of discrlmination and k violatidn of the existing trade treatieS belweeri YugbSlavia, Russia and othef Eastern Cotintries. Russia, Btilgaria, Huhgafy, Pblahfl, .Rumania ahd Czechoslovakia attencied the conference \vhich decided to sel iip an Eastern Eurbpean economic cbtmeil. ri,he Russian reply saidf: ' ' The Riissian Government. considered the Yugoslav Government itself excluded an.v possibility of participation in Ihe* Mnx cow conference, by taking a .hostih attitude tewards RuSsia anH t)ie coun tries of the people 's democracies. 'L'lu.> attitude completely disagfees ' with the ■Aoviet-Yugos.lav Friendfthip and Alutual Aid Treaty and with obligations assumed by Augoslavia under that treaty. Xobody but the Yugoslav Gbvei'nmeni has viblated these treatieS on mutual aid and friendship between Yugoslavia, Russia and the other Eastern countries, by substitutin'g a poiicy of hostiiity fm the old poiicy OTj^frieudsh'ip with Riis sia. The Council for kcdnomic iiutuai Aid has been ereated for the lar'gescale economic eooperation of the eountries having towards each other an honest and friendly poiicy. The Sovie! Government considers desirable Yugoslavia 's participation in' the council but that participation is possibie only if the YugoSlav Government .will renouncc its hostile poiicy towards Russia and return to the old poiicy of friendship Lt is no seeret that the Yugoslav Government is conducting mass reprisals against and arrests of Yugoslav citizens who favour friendship with Russia and the countries of the people 's deinoeracifes. The Boviet Government has- no doubts that only a decisive brbak with a poiicy of hostiiity and a ehange over to a poiicy of friendship, can conform to the fundamental intereSts Of the Yugoslav peoplOS, to the interosts of their economic prospefity and thfe independetice of the Yugoslav State.-" — — .... — — iii