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, Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade of the USSR Alexei Nikolaevich Manjulo (from left to right at the table), member of the Military Executive Committee of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, Chairman of the Council of State Commissioners of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau Francisco Mendes, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (from left to right in the background), Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev, Chairman of the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR for Foreign Economic Relations Semyon Andreevich Skachkov, Minister of Culture of the USSR Pyotr Nilovich Demichev, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Ivan Vasilyevich Arkhipov (from left to right in the third background) and Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Alexandrovich Tikhonov (on the right in the third background) during the signing ceremony trade agreement between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau in the Kremlin. Viktor Koshevoy/TASS