Switzerland Laos Conference, 1962 (b/w photo)

The Laos Conference convenes for its final session on July 21, 1962, and takes note of the documents, which are to be signed two days later. The signing of the neutrality treaty should mark the peaceful solution of the Laos conflict. British foreign minister Lord Home (3rd from right) has the floor. From left to right: Pushkin and Andrei Gromyko (Sovjet Union), Prince Souvanna Phouma, the Laotian prime minister, as well as Lord Home and Malcolm MacDonald. After the three Laotian rival princes agreed upon a coalition government, the 14-powers conference on the settlement of the Laotian conflict was resumed on July 2, 1962, after a five-month interval