Visit of K. Phomvihane to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov, 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 and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (from left to right in the foreground) during the ceremony of presenting the Soviet leaders with a commemorative banner as a token of gratitude of the LPRP and the Lao people to the CPSU and the Soviet people before the start of Soviet-Lao talks in the Grand Kremlin Palace. Valentin Kuzmin/TASS