General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev visits Romania to attend a meeting of the Political Consultative Committee of the Warsaw Pact member states, July 7-8, 1989. Mikhail Gorbachev, 2nd left, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Ryzhkov, 3rd left, during the talks with President of the Socialist Republic of Romania, Chairman of the State Council and General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party, Nicolae Ceausescu, right.