Title

Labour-Brezhnev talks on nuclear missiles

Genre

News report; Press conference

TX Date

18 Sep 1991

Year of production

1981

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:02:33

Description

Report on Labour Party leader Michael Foot and deputy leader Denis Healey’s talks in Moscow with Leonid Brezhnev, when the Soviet President repeated his 1979 offer to withdraw nuclear missiles from western Russia provided NATO countries do not go ahead with the deployment of new missiles in western Europe. Includes Foot and Healey on the readiness of the Soviet government to negotiate. Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

Denis Healey; Michael Foot

Keywords

USSR; Nuclear weapons; Arms control; Nuclear disarmament; NATO; Presidents; Defence policy; Europe; Missiles; Leonid Brezhnev; East West relations

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