1971.08.23, Country (India), Country (Russia), Newspaper
(Newsweek) When Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko flew into New Delhi last
week, the local diplomatic corps hardly took notice. Some of the foreign envoys
had been assured by Indian officials that nothing very exciting would come from
the Gromyko visit, and many of them repaired to the northern hill stations to
escape the sweltering summer heat and rain. But only a day after his arrival
Russia's No. I diplomatic troubleshooter made it plain that he had come to
India's capital on urgent and momentous business. Seated at flag-bedecked table
in New Delhi's Foreign Ministry; Gromyko triumphantly set his signature to a
precedent-shattering, twenty-year treaty of peace, friendship and co-operation
between the Soviet Union and India.
