US-Soviet Reykjavik summit

Title

US-Soviet Reykjavik summit

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:08:34

Description

Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock on the recent Reykjavik summit of US President, Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev; Britain’s role in arms control discussions; Labour’s non-nuclear defence policy and commitment to NATO. He also comments on the latest UK unemployment figures. Female interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Neil Kinnock

Keywords

USA; Labour Party; UK; USSR; Unemployment; International relations; Nuclear weapons; Arms control; Nuclear disarmament; NATO; Heads of state; Defence policy; Ronald Reagan; Summits (meetings); Political leaders; Iceland; Employment statistics; Mikhail Gorbachev; East West relations; Reykjavik

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