Visit of A.N. Kosygin to Syria

Syria. Damascus. Chairman of the State Committee of the USSR Council of Ministers for Foreign Economic Relations Semyon Andreevich Skachkov, Head of the Sector of the Department of Middle East Countries of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs Viktor Viktorovich Posuvalyuk, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin and First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (from right to left in the foreground) during Soviet-Syrian negotiations. Viktor Budan/TASS