Word: summits
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...what the Nixon Administration expected could be counted as a triumph for Gaullist foreign policy. There was no little irony in the fact that when the President of the U.S. finally made his trip to Europe last week, it was not to be photographed with fellow statesmen at a summit or to sign a new Atlantic Charter, but to attend a memorial service for a statesman who had criticized American foreign policy...
...foreign ministers, scheduled for next month in Bonn, where Callaghan was to spell out in detail Britain's aims, has now become meaningless because of France's uncertain political situation. At the same time, Pompidou's death scuttled plans for a late May or early June summit of EEC chiefs to consider the British proposals...
...NATION)-he was visibly worried over the diplomatic crevasses that had appeared in place of diplomatic bridges. For Nixon, who counts on strong accomplishments abroad to offset political problems at home, the results could only be disheartening. What was to have been a triumphal presidential trip to a Moscow summit in June to sign a SALT II agreement may now turn into a slugfest to reach any kind of agreement...
...Starting from the summit meeting in Moscow-the first between Nixon and Brezhnev in 1972-and the communiqué that was issued after it, there was a very critical phrase that caused us great annoyance. It said that both parties agreed on military relaxation in the area. Military relaxation meant that the state of no war-no peace that had prevailed here, and that had caused us all our trouble and our dilemma, would continue. The next year, [at] the Washington summit, it was obvious that the two superpowers had gone a step further. It was quite clear from...
...most dramatic event of the summit, however, Sadat was able to reconcile Pakistan's Premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Bangladesh Premier Sheik Mujibur Rahman, who have been enemies since Bangladesh split off from Pakistan two years ago. Bhutto solemnly recognized the independence of Pakistan's former east wing, while Sheik Mujib hinted that he will no longer press wartime atrocity charges against 195 Pakistani officers held prisoner in India. Mujib promised also to do "my bit" to reconcile Pakistan and India, a task that would tax even Henry Kissinger...