Word: pact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charles de Gaulle's policy of trying to mediate between East and West. The focus of the summit was not disclosed in advance, but probable topics included NATO'S plans to deploy medium-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe, which have upset the Soviets, and the Warsaw Pact's year-old call for a European conference on detente and disarmament...
...summed up Moscow's new "peace offensive," which is apparently designed to repair the damage done to its reputation by the invasion of Afghanistan. The scope of the new offensive was outlined in Warsaw at a high-powered gathering of Brezhnev and the heads of the other Warsaw Pact states...
...call for a "top-level meeting of the leaders of states of all the regions of the world." This global summit, said a lengthy Warsaw Pact "declaration," would focus on "the task of removing hotbeds of international tension and preventing...
With these proposals, Moscow hopes to revive its dialogue with the West. Another aim of the "peace offensive" is to divide Washington from its allies. Last week's lengthy Warsaw Pact declaration, for example, spares the West European governments the criticism that is heaped on Washington...
Moscow's call for conferences received an equally cool welcome. The U.S. believes that summits are useful primarily to ratify agreements already reached. Otherwise, the fanfare surrounding such meetings leads to false hopes and possible misunderstandings. As for the Warsaw Pact proposals on arms control in Europe, a senior British diplomat suggested that the most effective means of lessening tensions would be for the Soviets to halt their deployment of SS-20 nuclear missiles...