Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control

Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control
President Gerald Ford and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev sign a Joint Communiqué
Host country Soviet Union
DateNovember 23–24, 1974
Venue(s)Okeanskaya Sanatorium
CitiesVladivostok
ParticipantsSoviet Union Leonid Brezhnev
United States Gerald Ford
FollowsMoscow Summit (1974)
PrecedesVienna Summit (1979)

The Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control was a two-day summit held on November 23 and 24, 1974, in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia, for the purpose of extending arms control provisions between the Soviet Union and the United States.[1][2] After a series of talks between American President Gerald Ford and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Washington and American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's visit to Moscow, Ford traveled to Vladivostok to meet with Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev directly.[2] The two heads of state agreed to terms that would limit both nations an "equal aggregate number" of various weapons, including strategic nuclear delivery vehicles (SNDVs), intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) fitted with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs).[3]

  1. ^ "Travels of President Gerald R. Ford". Office of the Historian. United States Department of State. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  2. ^ a b "The Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control November 23-24, 1974". The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Digital Library. Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
  3. ^ "Arms Control Summits". PSR.org. Physicians for Social Responsibility. Retrieved 25 January 2013.

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