H. Assad's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Syrian Arab Republic Abdel Halim Khaddam, Secretary General of the Arab Socialist Renaissance Party, President of the SAR Hafez al-Assad, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (left to right in the foreground) and Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union Dmitry Fyodorovich Ustinov (right in the background) before the start of negotiations in the Kremlin. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS