Right: General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Gorbachev holds reception 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. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Mali Abdoulaye Amadou Sy, left, greets the leader of the Soviet state.