Visit of F. Mendes to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. State Commissioner without portfolio, member of the Executive Committee of the Council of Struggle of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) Jose Araujo, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (from left to right at the table), member of the Military Executive Committee of PAIGC, Chairman of the Council of State Commissars of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau Francisco Mendes, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (from left to right in the background), Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev (second from left in the third background), Chairman of the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR for Foreign Economic Relations Semyon Andreevich Skachkov (center in the third background) and Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Ivan Vasilyevich Arkhipov (second from right in the third background) during the signing ceremony in the Kremlin of the protocol on the legal status of the trade mission of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in Guinea-Bissau. Viktor Koshevoy/TASS