Moscow superpower summit

Title

Moscow superpower summit

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

TX Date

31 May 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:03:16

Description

Mark Percy reports on the Moscow superpower summit with minor agreements made over nuclear arms. Includes speeches by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (through interpreter) and US President Ronald Reagan at a banquet; speech by Reagan on human rights to dissidents and speech in reply by dissident priest Father Gleb Yekudin(?) (through interpreter); foreign affairs spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov dismisses the dissidents.

Contributors

Ronald Reagan; Mikhail Gorbachev; Gennadi Gerasimov; Mark Percy; Gleb Yekudin(?)

Keywords

USA; Treaties; Human rights; USSR; International relations; Nuclear weapons; Arms control; Civil and political rights; Summits (meetings); Political dissenters; Nuclear testing; Moscow; East West relations

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