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President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev at the signing ceremony for INF Treaty
Reagan and Gorbachev ratifying the INF Treaty

The Moscow Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. President of the United States Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev.

It was held on May 25 through June 3, 1988. The summit was held in order to seek peace and to ban nuclear weapon use between the Soviet Union and the United States. The treaty they signed was the INF Treaty.

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