Speech by the Soviet Foreign Minister (Andrei A. Gromyko)1 Dec 1981 |
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Description:
This is the transcript of a speech given by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at the 1981 meeting of the Warsaw Pact's Committee of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (CMFA) in Bucharest. He characterizes the international situation as difficult, with a heightened risk of war. He blames the US for the breakdown of disarmament talks and complains that adequate confidence-building measures have not been not defined at the CSCE conference in Madrid. He also states that Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev's visit to West Germany shows that the Western European countries are interested in further disarmament. Collection: Foreign Ministers
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Document Type:
Verbatim
Speech Language of Original Document: Czech Number of Pages: 12 Cold War Period: 1980s Persons: Gromyko, Brezhnev, Carter, Schmidt |
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Document Source: Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (AMZV), Prague Call Number: C.j. 016.976/81 |
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