Reception given by General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Gorbachev, right, for the heads of diplomatic missions accredited in the USSR on the occasion of the upcoming New Year in the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, December 27, 1985. Left: Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (now the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) to the USSR Habib Mangal greets the leader of the Soviet state.
