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Hope for Understanding
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CURRENT ISSUES
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1 / 1986 |
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Albert Weeks is a professor of history at New York University,
a noted Kremlinologist, and a nationally published author. |
Post-Summit Statement
International Security Council
November 26, 1985
The world has applauded the outcome of the Geneva summit meeting between the United States and the Soviet Union. Especially significant was President Reagan's reaffirmation in his address to Congress on November 21, 1985, of America's continuing deep desire for peace and unwavering attachment to freedom.
But the President also said that "the United States cannot afford illusions about the nature of the USSR." We fully agree. And we underscore, with the President, that American and allied strength has given us in the west the ability to act with confidence and to explore every genuine opportunity to promote freedom, peace and security.
The Geneva summit was the latest in a long series of such encounters, which often have produced--let us remember--results damaging to the interests of free and democratic countries. There never will be symmetry in public pressures on the participants in summits between democracies and totalitarian states. The absence of these pressures in a totalitarian system, combined with its manipulation of such forces within the democratic world, creates a basic imbalance in any summit process. Yet, at Geneva, some modest agreements were reached.
Now the free world must prepare an affirmative agenda for peace and freedom.
We support President Reagan's stand on
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