ABSTRACT
The long-awaited Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting in Geneva in late November 1985 was the stage for signature of yet another cultural agreement between the two superpowers. The 1985 agreement is the longest cultural agreement to date. President Reagan, in his pre-summit address to the nation on November 14, 1985, signalled his intention to broaden people-to-people exchanges with the Soviet Union. The administration’s intention to negotiate a cultural agreement with the Soviet Union was announced by President Reagan in an address on June 27, 1984, to participants in a Conference on US-Soviet Exchanges, held at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington, D.C. The administration expects to obtain private funding for exchanges under the six initiatives, and it may succeed initially. Exchanges will increase between the two countries, but the pace cannot be faster than the Soviets are willing to accept.
