Kaysone Phomvihane, the General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and the Prime Minister of Lao PDR. The image was cropped from a photo taken when a Romanian party-state delegation headed by the then-President of Romania Nicolae Ceauşescu visited Lao PDR in 1978; the original photo also depicts Ceauşescu and Souphanouvong, the then-President of Lao PDR.