THE SPEECH BY REAGAN ON ICELAND

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 7, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/12/08: CIA-RDP90-00552R000707400001-4
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The Speech
By Reagan
On Iceland
Following are excerpts from Presi-
dent Reagan's speech in Washington
yesterday, as recorded by The New
York Times through the facilities of
ABC Radio:
NEW YORK TIMES
7 October 1986
In short, doing more about arms con-
trol meant talking about more than
arms control. So I proposed in my 1984
U.N. address what I call umbrella talks
- negotiations with a broad-based
agenda. The summit process has re-
flected this approach and includes a
broad-based agenda.
We've stressed, in addition to arms
reduction, three other agenda items:
Respect for human rights.
9Resolving regional conflicts.
qAnd improving bilateral contacts
between the Soviets and ourselves.
Daniloff and Orlov
Finally, there is the issue of broader
contacts between the Soviet and Amer-
ican peoples, especially young people.
I think you can understand, then,
when Mr. Gorbachev extended his invi-
tation to a presummit discussion, I ac-
cepted. With such grave and complex
matters, there's no such thing as too
much preparation.
So, I hope that in explaining all this
i've done something to dispel some of
the inaccurate speculation and false
hopes raised about the Iceland talks.
I expect these talks to be useful and
successful, but only as preparation for
Knowing of your interest in this mat- U.N. waskarrested, theSoviets etal - is futures that we semntwillip need as We have from
is ter, I wanted to use this opportunity to ated by arresting an American journal- the start - step by step, cautiously,
offer a perspective, the American per- ist, Nicholas Daniloff, on trumped-up prudently and realistically.
sPective if you will, on the meetings be- charges. It was an act that held hos- And by the way, I hope this last point,
tween Mr. Gorbachev and me later this tage not only an innocent American about our realism, helps to answer
week in Reykjavik, Iceland. journalist but the future of Soviet- r some of the, domestic criticisms re-
Groundwork is essential And f
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thi
s took action in reh
sponse to te Soviet
a hallmark of Administration policy. use of the U.N. for intelligence activi-
We've tried to take a prudent and a ties by ordering the expulsion of 25
realistic and above all deliberate ap- Soviet personnel known to be involved
proach toward Soviet-American rela- : in such activities.
tions. That the arrest of a single spy could
Instead of rushing unprepared into' lead to such risk-taking by the Soviets
negotiations with the Soviets, the Ad- again underscores the differences be-
ministration took the time in its earli. tween our two systems. It was an ex-
est days to make clear the essential tremely grave step but one that could
elements of American foreign policy. hardly surprise us. After all, human
Our commitment to the twin goals of rights violations in the Soviet bloc re-
world peace and world freedom, our main unceasing because they're insti-
willingness to be realistic and candid, tutionalized and sanctioned by the
about the Soviets, to publicly define the state ideology.
crucial moral distinctions between to. It's worth noting here that we agreed
talitarianism and democracy and as- to exchange the Soviet spy in question
sist those who are struggling for their for the noted Russian human rights
own self-determination. leader Yuri Orlov and his wife. Mr. Or-
'Prevent War and Keep the Peace' loo's service to humanity, the record of
fives"o o?lec-
determination to seek Yet it is also worth noting he was
- our ways
of working with the Soviets t persecuted simply because he led an
o prevent effort to get the Soviet Government to
war and to keep the peace. In pursuing live up to the human rights agreements
this objective we adopted a step-by-
p approach toward Soviet-American it signed Helsinki in 1975.
negotiations, gradually expanding and Rights and Regional Conflicts
intensifying the areas of both bilateral When the Soviet state's ideology
and multilateral discussion. And, as makes it a crime to advocate living up
.we've seen, eventually summit meet- to international commitments, the rest
ings themselves became a critical part of the world has to take notice. And this
pf that effort. point as well as the entire range of
06 Iceland is not intended to be a signing Soviet human rights abuses must be
'ceremony or a media event but a pro- addressed at future summits.
summit planning session, a chance to So, too, there is the issue of regional
make preparations for the serious conflicts. It would be simply unthink-
work Mr. Gorbachev and I will have to able for world leaders to meet in splen-
do when he visits the United States. did isolation even as the people of Af-
Iceland is a base camp before the ghanistan, Central America, Africa
summit. and Southeast Asia undergo terrible
While our emphasis will be on plan- sufferings as a result of Soviet invasion
ning and preparation, not treaty papers or military intervention.
or publicity, part of the emphasis in
Iceland will be on the broad-based
agenda that we've agreed to: Discus.
sion not only of critical arms reduction
proposals, but equally important ques.
tions such as Soviet human rights
violations, military intervention by the
Soviets and their proxies in regional.
conflicts.
his sufferings, makes him a hero for
tions that I'm getting soft on Commu.
nism is for me a new, and perhaps the
word titillating is proper for that ex-
perience.
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