Moscow city. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR A. A. Gromyko, US Ambassador to the USSR D. Beam, British Ambassador to the USSR D. Killik, representatives of Belarus, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, East Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Canada, Germany, Mongolia , Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Iceland, Egypt, Japan, Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran, Australia, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Nepal, Burma, Ceylon, Malaysia, Ethiopia, Burundi, Ghana sign the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction. NV Podgorny presents the Order of the October Revolution to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the GDR O. Vintser.