Visit of H. Amin to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Foreign Economic Relations Semyon Andreyevich Skachkov, Minister of Public Health and Acting Minister of Planning of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan Akbar Shah Wali (from right to left in the foreground), Chairman of the USSR State Security Committee Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko and Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DRA Hafizullah Amin (from right to left in the background) during the signing ceremony of the agreement between the governments of the USSR and the DRA on the establishment of a permanent intergovernmental Soviet-Afghan commission on economic cooperation in the Grand Kremlin Palace. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS