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 Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, 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 Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko, Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko (from right to left in the background), Chairman of the Party Control Committee under the CPSU Central Committee Arvid Yanovich Pelshe (second from right in the third background), member of the Politburo of the PDPA, Secretary of the PDPA Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DRA Hafizullah Amin (fourth from left in the background), member of the Politburo of the PDPA Central Committee, Secretary of the PDPA, Minister of Public Health, Acting Minister of Planning of the DRA Shah Vali (fifth from 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 (sixth from 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. Eduard Pesov/TASS