SYND 14 4 77 AFGHAN PRESIDENT MOHAMMED DAUD KHAN VISITS RUSSIA

(14 Apr 1977) Mohammed Daud Khan, President of Afghanistan visited the Soviet Union and was met in Moscow by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and President Nikolai Podgorny. At the Kremlin her also met with Party secretary Leonid Brezhnev and Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin. President Daud met Leonid Brezhnev on a state visit to Moscow from April 12 to 15, 1977. He had asked for a private meeting with the Soviet Premier, to discuss with him the increased pattern of Soviet actions in Afghanistan. In particular the intensified Soviet attempt to unite the two factions of the Afghan communist parties, Parcham and Khalq. Brezhnev described Afghanistan's non-alignment as important to the USSR and essential to the promotion of peace in Asia, but warned him about the presence of experts from NATO countries stationed in the northern parts of Afghanistan.

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