 President of the United States, accompanied by the Vice President, Secretary of State George Schultz, and the Foreign Minister of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Eduard Chevernadze. Please be seated. I am very pleased that today the United States and the Soviet Union will sign the agreement to establish nuclear risk reduction centers. This agreement is another practical step in our efforts to reduce the risks of conflict that could otherwise result from accident, miscalculation, or misunderstanding. Today's agreement goes beyond existing structures to establish the first new direct channel for communications between Washington and Moscow since the creation of the hotline in 1963. I am very pleased that today the United States and the Soviet Union will sign the agreement to establish nuclear risk reduction centers. This agreement is another practical step in our efforts to reduce the risks of the conflict that could otherwise result from accident, miscalculation, or misunderstanding. Today's agreement goes beyond existing structures to establish the first new direct channel for communications between Washington and Moscow since the creation of the hotline in 1963. Nuclear risk reduction centers will play an important role in further lessening the chances of conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. They provide a means to transmit notifications required under existing confidence-building measures and could play a key role in exchanging the information necessary for effective verification of future arms control agreements. Nuclear risk reduction centers will play an important role in further reducing the chances of conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. They provide a means to transmit notifications required according to existing measures and could play a key role in exchanging the information necessary for effective control of future arms control agreements. For the United States, this agreement results from close cooperation among the executive, Congress, and private groups and individuals to produce a pragmatic agreement that advances our common goals of peace and security. I would like to make special mention of the excellent council and leadership that we have received over several years on nuclear risk reduction from Senators John Warner and Sam Nunn. And I would like to make special mention of the excellent council and leadership that we have I would also like to express my appreciation to the United States delegation on nuclear-risk reduction centers, and especially its co-chairman, former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Pearl and my special assistant Robert Lindhart, and to the Soviet delegation headed by Ambassador Alexei Obokov for their skill and dedication in successfully concluding the negotiations. This agreement complements our ongoing and promising efforts in Geneva to achieve, for the first time, deep, equitable, and effectively viable nuclear-risk reduction centers. I would also like to express my appreciation to the United States delegation on nuclear-risk reduction centers, and especially its co-chairman, former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Pearl, for their skill and dedication in achieving, for the first time, deep, equitable, and effectively verifiable reductions in Soviet and American nuclear arsenals. Mr. Foreign Minister, I am pleased to have you sign this agreement today and look forward to the day when General Secretary Gorbachev and I can sign even more historic agreements in our common search for peace. This agreement complements our ongoing and promising efforts in Geneva to achieve, for the first time, deep, equitable, and effectively viable reduction in Soviet and American nuclear arsenals. Mr. Foreign Minister, I am pleased to have you sign this agreement today and look forward to the day when we and General Secretary Gorbachev will be able to sign even more historic agreements in our common search for peace. Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, dear comrades, the recent events in the Soviet-American relations are not as frequent as they are today. However, in 1987, it turned out to be relatively random. In April, during the visit of the Secretary of State, Mr. Shultz in Moscow, a peaceful cooperation of space was signed. Today, from the centers for reducing nuclear danger. Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, comrades, in Soviet-American relations in recent times, events like this one are not too frequent. However, 1987 turns out to be relatively fruitful. In April, last April, during the visit of Secretary of State, Shultz to Moscow, we signed an agreement on peaceful cooperation in space. Today, we are signing an agreement on nuclear risk reduction centers. The signing by us today of this agreement marks a tangible step in the practical implementation of the understanding which Mikhail Gorbachev and you, Mr. President, reached in Geneva. Nuclear war should never be fought, you said both. Let us hope that the agreement that we are signing today will help to move further toward that historic goal. This is a sign which may be a prelude to more important agreements. In particular, agreements on the reduction of nuclear arsenals, as the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and the President of the United States agreed in Reykjavik. The most important thing is to do the utmost for this to happen, to the gratification of our peoples and of the entire world community. Today, we have tried to reduce the burden of the reserve, the uncertainty and anxiety about which tired people are tired of our land. In this case, I would like to sincerely thank everyone who worked hard and self-confidently for two years on this agreement. Allow me to give the floor to the diplomats and experts, as well as the members of the Senate of the United States of America, first of all to the senators of NANU and Warner, who have expressed a lot of energy and support for the movement of this wonderful idea. I would like to believe that this small boat of hope will be able to help the people of the United States and the people of the United States of America and the people of the United States of America. Thank you for your attention. I would like to use this opportunity to cordially thank all those who for two years worked with perseverance and dedication to prepare this agreement. I would like to pay tribute to the diplomats and experts and to the members of the U.S. Senate, particularly to senators NANU and Warner, who worked with a great deal of energy and persistence to promote this idea. I would like to hope that this small gulp of hope is prelude to the quenching of the global thirst for peace and security. Thank you. They will now sign the proclamation. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You're a great ally of the president. We are the president. We are the president of the United Kingdom. And we're the president. And we say that our country is a member of the K-group. And we say that what people believe is true. I think it is right to emphasize that the nuclear war should not be solved, that it cannot be the winner. But I often say that this is the case with the public, and it is always the case when it comes to this phrase. There is a lot of change in this phrase. It is a representation of the people. This phrase has given people in the world some tranquillity. In Geneva, where would the people receive the details that the land would be so poisonous? It cannot be the winner. This is my second time on this channel. So I have studied this. Well, no empty chairs. I know, I have been very interested in the word we get about the restructuring that is going on in your country. But we also get word that just as we have our own problems here with the Congress and so forth, that there are those who are opposing some of this restructuring. But what would be the source of that resistance? I would not say that we have opposition in Geneva, but there is indeed some resistance. And the reason there is in the people's minds, as I have said to the Secretary of State, is in the people's minds. The most difficult revolution is the one that has to affect the minds of people. The most important tendency, the most important distinctive feature of our process of restructuring and of our political one is this. It is a process of democratic change. This is the basis for the process of restructuring. Now everyone is ready for this process. It is more difficult to work in conditions of democracy. In conditions of lust and greed. In conditions of poverty and poverty and poverty and poverty and poverty and poverty and poverty and poverty and poverty. It is easier to govern by giving orders, by administrating investments. Everyone supports restructuring. Everyone supports restructuring in general terms. But when it comes to the person himself, when he has to change and he has to rebuild his own behavior, this is more difficult. This does not always happen. And this is our greatest problem. Although all those people are basically honest and good people. All of them would like healthy tendencies to prevail in Soviet Union. But personally they are not yet ready. There are some such people within the leadership among the ministers.