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...Even Kosygin accorded center stage to his recuperating host. After reading a bland opening statement, he turned and asked: "Did I do all right?" Replied Ayub: "Well done...
...foreign visitor, but most of the crowd had come to see the host. Pakistani President Ayub Khan, 60, was making his first appearance in public since he suffered a complicated case of pneumonia three months ago. Thinner, but waving vigorously, he got on with his mission: to welcome Aleksei Kosygin, the first Russian Premier ever to visit Pakistan...
Ayub hoped that Kosygin would do considerably better in private. His aim was to persuade Kosygin to stop selling SU-7 bombers, submarines and ground-to-air missiles to India, or else start selling them to him. Cut off from most new weaponry since the five-week border war with India in 1965, except for a few Communist Chinese planes and tanks, Ayub feels that the balance of subcontinental power is tilting in favor of India-and remains unconvinced by Russia's claim that India's arsenal is only for use against Red Chinese invaders. Furthermore, Pakistan wants...
...After two days of talks, Kosygin made it clear in a televised press conference that he and Ayub did not see eye to eye. "We might not be able," he said, "to meet each other all the way on all points, and perhaps cannot say that we have completely identical views on all the events going on." Unfortunately for Ayub, Kosygin is not willing to risk alienating India, an ally against the Chinese that Russia wants to pamper with every attention. At week's end he planned a detour to New Delhi on his flight home, probably to discuss...
...Kosygin did not waste the chance. After attending a wrestling performance, he appeared at a state banquet to declare that "the Soviet Union is prepared to help Iran for the quickest possible exploitation of its natural resources." He also persuaded the Iranians to quintuple their Soviet trade, making Russia their biggest customer and biggest supplier. Finally, he talked the Shah into taking Russia in as a full partner in the exploitation of vast copper and oilfields that lie in central Iran. Even for Kosygin, it was an unusually profitable trip...