Chapter 923: The Geneva Negotiations I

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The sky was exceptionally blue, like a girl's gauze skirt, scattering a few white clouds in the sky. www.biquge.info In the distance, you can see the snow-capped Alps, which are covered with snow all year round, and in the distance, you can see the city full of medieval style and modern beauty.

The European-style architecture is simple and dignified, here is the old town of the city, the ground is still a stone paved street, narrow and narrow, shaded by green trees, simple and elegant, and on the other side of the building by the Lake Léman, it reveals a modern atmosphere, all kinds of modern high-rise buildings rise from the ground, neat and wide, reasonable layout. The park is full of ancient trees, quiet and beautiful.

This city is the second largest city in Switzerland, Ri Neva. It is one of Switzerland's most scenic cities, and at a time when its clocks and watches are exported abroad, it has also become an international city with a large number of international institutions from all over the world. Including the United Nations European Headquarters, the World Health Organization, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the International Telecommunication Union, the World Meteorological Organization, the World Trade Organization, the Union of Conferences of Nations, the European Center for Nuclear Research, the International Organization for Standardization, the International Committee of the Red Cross, etc., are all located in Neva. As a result, many major international conferences have been held in Neva. {{

For example, now, for the first meeting of the new leaders between the two superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union, they have chosen to be in Neva!

After World War II, there were no more than 10 meetings between the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union, and this meeting was the first U.S.-Soviet summit since President Carter met with General Secretary Leonid Brenev in Vienna in 1979

Right now. The new leader of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, came to power. His coming to power represents a new historical moment for the Soviet Union. The Soviet leadership began to pay more and more attention to the problems of people's lives at home, to the problems of economic reform in their own country, and now, the American economy is also very bad, and in this situation, the meeting between the United States and the Soviet Union. With the attention of all countries, what kind of project will the two sides meet? Will there be an agreement on the disarmament of nuclear weapons, which is of the greatest concern to the world?

Under the watchful eye of the people, November 19ri, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The leaders of two of the most powerful countries on earth met for the first time in the beautiful city of Neva.

This was the first meeting between the two sides, and when the two hands were clasped together, both of them had smiles on their faces, and under countless flashes, this very important scene was filmed. {{}}

Reagan was taller, significantly taller than Gorbachev, and Reagan had the usual three-and-seven-point back and full hairstyle. And Gorbachev was already a little bald, the weather was a little cold at this time, and both sides were wearing tweed coats.

At this time, the conversation is obviously polite xing, and there will be nothing substantial xing.

On the vast Lake Léman, it is crystal clear, and in the middle of the lake, it is like a glittering long sword soaring straight into the sky. The 145-meter-high silver sè water column then turns into a fan-shaped drizzle pouring into the lagoon, which is the famous artificial fountain of the Neva. On a sunny day, the wide lake here is rippling with blue waves, sailboats with colorful sails, pleasure boats, and yachts are endless.

But now, there are no tourist boats on the lake, only a few patrol boats plying back and forth, carried by agents from Switzerland, the United States, and the Soviet Union. {{}}

In a villa by the lake, it is even more heavily guarded, and a mobile anti-aircraft missile engine can even be seen around the corner. This is the famous Splash Villa.

After the delegations of the two sides had their first contact with each other, at the invitation of President Reagan, Gorbachev and President Reagan gladly came to the villa for a private meeting.

The most important thing is the current meeting between the two sides, which is of great help in exchanging views on both sides, the most basic attitudes on various issues, and easing the tense situation between the East and the West through the talks between the two sides.

"Recently, RI Yuansheng is worth a very good value, I heard that your country's capital has gone to the island country to invest in the island country's stocks, their income must be good." Gorbachev said.

After hearing this, President Reagan didn't expect that this guy, who was not at all as easy to deal with as he imagined, actually came up and commanded his own army!

Because of the depreciation of the US dollar, a large amount of capital has fled abroad, which has made the economic problems in the United States even more serious, and a lot of capital has gone to the island countries to invest. {{}}

Gorbachev's remarks were clearly ridiculing the United States. This is not like the demeanor of the leader of a great power.

In this case, Reagan was also unceremonious, saying: "This year's rains are good, there are bumper harvests all over the world, international grain prices have fallen, and your country has imported grain, and the pressure has been reduced a lot." ”

The world has a bumper harvest, but there is not enough food to eat in the Soviet Union, and as the person in charge of agriculture in the past, I really don't know how you made a mess of agricultural production in the Soviet Union.

Hearing the sharp criticism of the other party, Gorbachev knew that there was no point in discussing this kind of content, but what he said just now was not to ridicule the other party, they came to Neva so solemnly, not like a barbaric woman on the street to scold and fight.

When he said this, he just wanted to point out that now both sides are not very good economically, and correspondingly, they should save some money to spend on each other, and this family is not so easy to do. {{}}

"The United States, despite the opposition of the whole world, launched the Star Wars program, turning outer space into another battlefield and making the world more turbulent, and just a few days ago, another anti-satellite experiment was carried out, intensifying the confrontation in space, which is not in line with the cháo flow of world peace." Gorbachev continued.

"The Soviet Union possessed anti-satellite technology ten years ago, and we have only now crossed this threshold, so from this point of view, it should be the Soviet Union that provoked an arms race in outer space first, right?" President Ronald Reagan said.

Gorbachev continued: "More than ten years ago, when our General Secretary Breonev and President Nixon met and signed an agreement on cooperation in the exploration and use of outer space, they already opposed the militarization of outer space. ”

We developed before the two sides signed the agreement, but after the United States signed this agreement, it annulled the agreement and redeveloped this weapon.

Reagan was speechless when he said this, but they didn't take the signing of that kind of agreement very seriously at all, and besides, it was completely different from Nixon time and now.

"General Secretary, it seems that we are not here just to protest, right?" Reagan said.

"Yes, we are here to find a solution." Gorbachev said: "We should increase exchanges and trust between each other and reduce our mutual hostility, so that it can benefit the national interests of both sides." ”

Gorbachev's words made Reagan happy in his heart, this is the general secretary, there is no longer the aggressive posture of Breniev at the beginning, and the exchanges and cooperation between the two sides are in the interests of both sides, not just for the sake of an empty name.

But, then, he heard Gorbachev's words again: "In order to reduce our mutual hostility, the United States should completely stop the Star Wars program and ban wars in outer space." ”

For the Soviet Union, the U.S. Star Wars program is a reason for seriously increasing the confrontation between the two sides, which is the key problem for the United States and the Soviet Union, the United States has high-tech and economic advantages, and the Soviet Union, both are lacking, Gorbachev needs to put funds mainly on domestic reforms, but he must not give up national interests, he wants to reduce the army, but he can't fall into the disadvantage in the confrontation with the United States, so his idea is to let the United States stop the Star Wars program, so The Soviet Union does not need to invest a lot of money in these areas, you know, for the current Soviet Union, it is what the United States has, and the Soviet Union has to have.

"Then, please also ask the Soviet Union to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, so that the situation in Central Asia can be restored." Reagan said.

For the United States, the Soviet Union's brutal invasion of Afghanistan has always been a verbal justification for attacking the Soviet Union.

Afghanistan withdrawal, you think I don't want to? Gorbachev thought in his heart, in fact, there is not a day when he no longer thinks about withdrawing troops from Afghanistan and ending the war there, this war has put a heavy economic burden on the Soviet Union, but he can't, because it is the land that the army has suffered countless casualties and gains, if he gives up like this, those fierce generals in the military will definitely make a fuss, and when he has not absolutely controlled the army, he has to endure it for the time being.

The two sides faced each other, although these words were transmitted through the translation, there was no smell of gunpowder, and even the two of them still had smiles on their faces, but in the words, they were still maintaining their own dignity as a great power, and this kind of dialogue had no meaning.

It's better to throw out the real proposal first, otherwise, if you continue to talk like this, talk about it for a day, even when it comes to Stalin and Roosevelt at the beginning, there will be no real progress.

"I think that for the sake of our common interests and for the sake of world peace, we should make substantial concessions to each other, and I propose that we jointly reduce our nuclear arsenals and contribute to the reduction of international tensions, what do you think?" Reagan asked.