At the Presidium of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in April, Dubček announced a political programme of "socialism with a human face".
At a June 18 Presidium meeting at which two Khrushchev supporters were absent, the plotters moved that Bulganin, who had joined the scheme, take the chair, and proposed other moves which would effectively demote Khrushchev and put themselves in control.
It elected a central executive committee to be in permanent session, with this committee's presidium at the head of the congress.
The Presidium meets at least weekly at the party's headquarters in Berlin to formulate and announce party positions on major issues and to schedule major party events.
We must say that at the central committee presidium session he cynically declared: "I thought that I was executing the orders of the party".
At the central committee presidium session he told us: "I was told that Kosior and Chubar were people's enemies and for this reason I, as an investigative judge, had to make them confess that they were enemies".
At this time, the PTA presidium set up a meeting with the regional cooperation body presidium.
In Moscow, between November and December 1964, at two sessions of the Presidium of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, Soviet leaders discussed the topic of Soviet military aid to North Vietnam.
Although Khrushchev and other Presidium members attacked Molotov at a Central Committee meeting in mid-1955, accusing him of conducting a foreign policy which turned the world against the USSR, Molotov remained in his position.
At a meeting of the Central Committee's presidium in 1963, Khrushchev pleaded, "Let's... figure out a solution so that we produce radio sets that work only for the reception of our stations".
