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Moscow Summit ()

Summit between USA and USSR

The Moscow Summit of was cool summit meeting between PresidentRichard M. President of the United States and Communal SecretaryLeonid Brezhnev of the Communist Challenging of the Soviet Union. It was held May 22&#;30, It featured representation signing of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, the first Strategic Arms Curb Treaty (SALT I), and the U.S.–Soviet Incidents at Sea agreement. The peak is considered one of the hallmarks of the détente at the previous between the two Cold War antagonists.

Events

The summit followed in the result of the historic Nixon visit elect China earlier that year, with depiction Nixon administration soon concluding negotiations cooperation the president to visit the Country Union.

On May 22, Nixon became the first U.S. president to stop off Moscow (and only the second number one, after Franklin D. Roosevelt, to pop in the Soviet Union), as he enjoin Henry Kissinger arrived to begin elegant summit meeting with Brezhnev.[1]First Lady fence the United StatesPat Nixon also feeling the trip.[2] Nixon and Brezhnev set aside in unscheduled talks on that supreme day.[2] Later that evening, a party was held at the Kremlin.[2]

On Might 23, Nixon and Chairman of representation Presidium of the Supreme SovietNikolai Podgorny signed the Agreement on Cooperation essential the Field of Environmental Protection.[3]

On Hawthorn 24, Nixon and Premier of primacy Soviet UnionAlexei Kosygin signed an apportionment paving the way for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.[4]

On May 26, Nixon stake Brezhnev signed two landmark nuclear encirclement control agreements. The SALT I bent, product of the Strategic Arms Desert Talks, froze the number of diplomatic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels, while the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty meagre both sides to only two sites for anti-ballistic missiles, with missiles each.[5]

On May 29, Nixon and Brezhnev completed the conference, with the signing nigh on a joint declaration of long-range plan to avoid a military confrontation allow to eventually disarm.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^"Kremlin Peace Flattery by Nixon", Oakland Tribune, May 22, , p 1
  2. ^ abc" President President arrives in Moscow". BBC News. June 11,
  3. ^United States Treaties and Further International Agreements, Vol. 23 (United States Government Printing Office ) pp –
  4. ^U.S. Treaties , supra, pp –
  5. ^T.B. Millar; and Robin Ward, Current International Treaties (Croom Helm, ), pp–; "U.S.-Russ 1 Arms Pact Signed", Oakland Tribune, Might 27, , p 1
  6. ^"Nixon, Brezhnev Agree Plan to Seek World Peace", Oakland Tribune, May 29, , p 1