Visit of K. Phomvihane to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. Head of the party and government delegation of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, Prime Minister of the Lao PDR Kaysone Phomvihane, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (from left to right in the foreground), Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov (second from right in the background), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko (third from right in the background) and Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Mikhail Avksentyevich Lesechko (left in the third background) during the signing ceremony of Soviet-Laotian documents in the Grand Kremlin Palace. Valentin Kuzmin/TASS