Visit of N. M. Taraki to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev and General Secretary of the PDPA Central Committee, Chairman of the Revolutionary Council, Prime Minister of the DRA Nur Mohammad Taraki (from right to left in the center in the foreground), member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin, member of the Politburo and Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko (from left to right in the background), member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Party Control Committee under the CPSU Central Committee Arvid Yanovich Pelshe (right in the third background), member of the Politburo, Secretary of the PDPA Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DRA Hafizullah Amin (fifth from left in the background), member of the Politburo of the Central Committee, Secretary of the PDPA, Minister of Public Health, Acting Minister of Planning of the DRA Shah Wali (sixth from the left in the background) and member of the Politburo of the PDPA Central Committee, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reform of the DRA Saleh Muhammad Zerai (seventh from the left in the background) during the signing ceremony of the Treaty of Friendship, Good-Neighborliness and Cooperation between the USSR and the DRA in the Vladimir Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS