Title

Washington summit - President Bush speech

Genre

Speech

TX Date

17 Jun 1992

Year of production

1992

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Duration

00:00:17

Description

Speech by US President George H. W. Bush following agreements between America and Russia on making new cuts in their countries’ nuclear arsenals. At their first summit in Washington, Bush and Russian leader Boris Yeltsin announced that stocks of long-range warheads will be slashed by two-thirds to between three thousand and three-and-a-half thousand each.

Contributors

George H. W. Bush

Keywords

USA; Russia; Peace treaties; Arms control; Heads of state; Presidents; Summits (meetings); Disarmament; Boris Yeltsin; Washington DC; George H. W. Bush

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