Consideration of ratification of the Soviet-Afghan treaty of friendship and cooperation. Speakers: Chairman of the Committee of Soviet Women, NV Popova, Politburo member Yuri Andropov, the Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, the poet Surkov and others. Present: IG Petrovskii, MP Georgadze, IG Ehrenburg, Budyonny, J. S. Nasriddinov and others.