Mikhail Gorbachev on summit failure

Title

Mikhail Gorbachev on summit failure

Genre

Speech

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1986

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:00:27

Description

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev (via an interpreter) following the end of the failed Iceland summit. Includes his view that the arms race has approached a point of no return.

Contributors

Mikhail Gorbachev

Keywords

USA; Peace; Human rights; USSR; International relations; Defence; Nuclear weapons; Diplomacy; Nuclear disarmament; Arms race; Nuclear warfare; Summits (meetings); Iceland; Bilateral relations; Bilateral agreements; Political events

The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.