Russia's Foreign Policy [antikvár]

Chronology of Key Foreign Policy Events, 1985-2005 1985 March April July September U.S.-Soviet arms negotiations in Geneva Gorbachev announces a unilateral moratorium on deployment of intermediate-range nuclear missiles and proposes a moratorium on all nuclear weapons tests Eduard Shevardnadze succeeds Andrei Gromyko as Soviet foreign minister Soviet Union imposes five-month moratorium on nuclear weapons tests, making its extension contingent upon a similar U.S. response Moscow proposes at Geneva negotiations that U.S. and USSR reduce long- and medium-range nuclear weapons by 50 percent 1986 January June Gorbachev proposes a ban on ail nuclear weapons by the year 2000 Warsaw Pact meeting in Budapest proposes mutual Warsaw Pact-NATO troops reduction of 100,000 to 150,000 men and the reduction of military capabilities to those "necessary for defense"