H. Assad's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Arab Socialist Revival Party, President of the Syrian Arab Republic Hafez al-Assad and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (from right to left) before the start of negotiations in the Kremlin. Vladimir Musaelyan, Valentin Sobolev/TASS