The Distinguished Guest from Burkina Faso in the USSR (1986)

Documentary №9298, 2 parts, duration: 0:18:29

Production: CSDF (RCSDF)

Director:Artseulov O.

Camera operators:Gorbatskiy V., Lovkov V.

Anouncers:Zozulin V.

Text authors:Korneshov L.

Topics:

Foreign policy Policy

Annotation:

In the Soviet Union came Chairman of the National Council of the Revolution, President and Head of the Government of Burkina Faso, Captain Thomas Sankara. Negotiations were held with Gromyko. The delegation visited Leningrad, Frunze.

Temporary description:

Solemn ceremony of welcoming the President and the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, Captain Thomas Sangare at Vnukovo airport in Moscow; atmosphere - Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Andrei Gromyko. T. Sangar talks with Andrei Gromyko, a meeting with Secretary-General of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Gorbachev, signing of the Soviet-Burkinabé declaration on cooperation. Tour office and apartment of Lenin in the Kremlin. The laying of wreaths at the Lenin Mausoleum and the grave of the Unknown Soldier. Leningrad. Visit the Smolny. T. Sankara meeting with the First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU Solovyov. Monument to Peter I, Summer Garden, Monument Defenders of Leningrad. Members of the Burkina Faso delegation visited the State Hermitage and Pushkin. Kirghiz SSR, Frunze. The leaders of the Republic met with "bread and salt" T. Sankar at the airport. Meeting T. Sankara with the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan Masaliev. Tour the factory of agricultural machinery, breeding farm, racetrack. Racing jockeys. T. Sankara planting a tree in the Alley of Friendship. The delegation of Burkina Faso visits Cosmonaut Training Center, accompanied by twice Hero of the Soviet Union cosmonaut of Beregovoi. T. Sankara meeting with activists of the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. Conducted at the airport.