J. Ford's visit to the USSR

USSR. Primorsky Krai. Vladivostok. President of the United States of America Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr., and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (from left to right, foreground), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the USSR Walter John Stoessel, Jr., US Secretary of State Henry Alfred Kissinger, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to the USA Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin (from left to right, background) and personal interpreter of L. I. Brezhnev Viktor Mikhailovich Sukhodrev (third from left, background) during the signing ceremony of the joint Soviet-American communiqué. J. Ford arrived in the USSR after official visits to Japan and the Republic of Korea for talks with L. I. Brezhnev on the limitation of strategic arms and the drafting of a corresponding treaty. Yuri Muravin, Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS