Tass said the conference adopted a package of six resolutions, saying the debate on bureaucracy, inter-ethnic relations and Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost," or more openness, were particularly thorny. It did not say what the resolutions said.

The Tass report said there were several votes on amendments, and that the conference rejected proposals by space scientist Roald Sagdeyev on elections to government councils.

An amendment calling for the Communist Party newspaper Pravda to be taken out of the hands of the policy-making Central Committee received only 56 votes, it said.

Gorbachev praised the open atmosphere of the conference.

"One of the heroes of our conference was glasnost because our conference was a result of the atmosphere of sincerity that is being reflected in our society. We also discussed its limits," he said.

He called on the Soviet media to "publicize the real achievements of the real heroes of perestroika," and proclaimed that no one has a monopoly on the truth.