LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Mikhail Gorbachev & Margaret Thatcher - Talks

Genre

News report; Press conference

TX Date

6 Apr 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:01:56

Description

Nigel Wrench reports on the Soviet opinion on talks between Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev and UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. Soviet foreign spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov struggles to find the English to express how positively the talks went, although he also questions the timing of a report into the sale of Soviet bombers to Libya.

Contributors

Nigel Wrench; Gennadi Gerasimov

Keywords

Reports; Margaret Thatcher; UK; USSR; Arms sales; International relations; Weapons; Heads of state; Libya; Meetings; Mikhail Gorbachev

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