H. Assad's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. USSR Minister of Defence, Marshal of the Soviet Union Dmitry Fyodorovich Ustinov, USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, General Secretary of the Arab Socialist Revival Party, President of the Syrian Arab Republic Hafez al-Assad, who arrived in the Soviet Union at the invitation of the CPSU Central Committee, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Council of Ministers of the USSR, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Syrian Arab Republic Abdul Halim Khaddam (from right to left in the foreground) during the welcoming ceremony at Vnukovo Airport. Eduard Pesov/TASS