Kosygin in Cairo
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) MOSCOW, October 18. The Soviet Prime Minister, Alexei Kosygin, is believed to have left for Cairo on Tuesday. He had missed all official functions for the past two days — without explanation — adding to speculation that he might be in Cairo on a special Kremlin mission connected with the Middle East war.
Mr Kosygin last appeared on Tuesday morning when he drove to see the Danish Prime Minister, Mr Anker Joergensen, and cancelled a scheduled meeting with him. Mr Kosygin has since been absent on three occasions at which protocol would normally require his attendance. In his nine-year career as Prime Minister, Mr Kosygin has been used twice on Kremlin trouble-shooting missions. In 1966, he presided over the India-Pakistan summit in Tashkent after a brief border war over Kashmir.
The following year he met President Johnson in Glassboro, New Jersey, to smooth over relations between the two Powers after the ArabIsraeli Six Day War.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33360, 19 October 1973, Page 1
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