XXIX session of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in Budapest

Hungarian People's Republic. Budapest. Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Head of the Department of the CPSU Central Committee for Relations with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries Konstantin Fedorovich Katushev, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin and Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, Permanent Representative of the USSR to the CMEA Mikhail Avksentievich Lesechko (from left to right in the foreground) during the opening ceremony of the 29th session of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. Viktor Budan/TASS