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, Air Marshal, USSR Minister of Civil Aviation Boris Pavlovich Bugayev (from left to right at the table), Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev, member of the Military Executive Committee of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, 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, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (from left to right, background), Chairman of the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR for Foreign Economic Relations Semyon Andreevich Skachkov and USSR Minister of Culture Pyotr Nilovich Demichev (from left to right, third background) during the signing ceremony in the Kremlin of an agreement between the governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau on air traffic. Viktor Koshevoy/TASS