Meeting of the Political Consultative Committee of the Warsaw Pact member states in Budapest

Hungarian People's Republic. Budapest. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, Chairman of the State Council of the People's Republic of Bulgaria Todor Zhivkov, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party, President of the Socialist Republic of Romania Nicolae Ceausescu, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Gustav Husak, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party Janos Kadar, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party, Chairman of the State Council of the Polish People's Republic Wojciech Jaruzelski and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Chairman of the State Council of the German Democratic Republic Erich Honecker (from left to right) during a joint photo ceremony before a meeting of the Political Consultative Committee of the Warsaw Pact member states. Yuri Lizunov, Alexander Chumichev/TASS