Visit of F. Mendes to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. State Commissioner without portfolio, member of the Executive Committee of the Council of Struggle of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) Jose Araujo, USSR Minister of Fisheries Aleksandr Akimovich Ishkov (from left to right at the table), Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev, member of the Military Executive Committee of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, Chairman of the Council of State Commissars of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau Francisco Mendes, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (from left to right in the background), USSR Minister of Culture Pyotr Nilovich Demichev (in the center in the third background), Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Ivan Vasilyevich Arkhipov (second from right in the third background) and Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov (from right in the third background) during the signing ceremony in the Kremlin of the agreement between the governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Republic of Guinea-Bissau on economic and technical cooperation. Viktor Koshevoy/TASS